For the record this isn't a funny post of any type so if you clicked this thinking it'd have any Creep-like qualities you should move on. This is a serious warning of a virus Symantec doesn't know about as of this morning, and how I got rid of it, since no one seems to know and Norton hasn't got there yet.

Normally I wouldn't say anything but I pretty much got owned last night- almost twice, the second one I ripped my connection out before it could finish downloading, probably the only good thing about dial up, cause it rated straight "High" on the risk thing on Norton I didn't really have a chance to hit too many sites, and I'm sure a lot of you hit the same ones as me, so...

It acts like a Windows program. And it shoots up a bubble every minute-ish from one of the yellow yield triange things and tells you to click it to scan or get virus protection or something like that (there's like 7 or 8 messages it has I think) and brings up livesecuritycenter.com/?aid=444. I can't tell you anything about that page, since I was logged off (go dial up!) It also changes your background to an ugly blueish one telling you you have spyware/viruses and it resets itself every minute-ish so you can't just change it and ignore it. By acting like a Windows program I mean that it'll bring up a "Windows Security Center" window that looks kind of genuine and tells you about some spyware or virus you have (I got 2nd Thought, TrojanDownloader.XS, "TX 4" BrowserAd adware, and Adware.180search) but every link you click'll bring you to that site. There's a few files I KNOW that it consists of, and they all respawn, so it's really not worth deleting them. Just as a diagnostic thing. Assuming your hard drive is C:\, here's some of the crap you'll get, by far not all, just what I remember for sure after deleting them so many times-

C:\Program Files\180- (there's three folders that start like that. they deal with searching, or at least the one did)
C:\WINDOWS\athprxy32.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\sbwltbxa (don't remember what type)

You can really just sort by modified date, set in groups, and see the ones where the creation date isn't when you set up your computer.

When I checked this morning Symantec.com didn't have anything about it, and a yahoo search of the page it wants to take you to only brought up a computer forum completely unrelated to it, where someone was saying they didn't know what to do about it, from just a few hours earlier. It won't uninstall and everything respawns if you go manually, like I said. The only thing computer gods dad and myself could do was run System Restore and knock it back a few days.

It might be a little harder to do if you get what I'm assuming is part 2 downloaded on you. The one I'm talking about, on the Norton thing, had its risked ranked with  Performance and Removal on High, Security on Mid, and Stealth on Low. The other one, as I said, was High straight across. I got off easy.

Hey, next time anyone gets mad at me, remember this.