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Just want to warn of a lethal cookie that attaches itself to your search engine & renders your computer useless. How can I make it on-line you might ask? ---Internet cafe. Be careful of.srd.yahoo or us.i1.jimg If I open up yahoo then it will be incredibly slow then at the bottom of my sreen, instead of being a simple yahoo.com it appears as us.11srdyahoo.com16486 or some other form. Searching goes somewhere else. This is where it ends up http://images.search.yahoo.com/images or web search- How to get rid of it? I Can't even find it with Avast , AVG, Antivir, Spybot, Ad-aware. What should I do now?

NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH svchost in your System 32 folder. Not sure how this virus came to be on my computer, but it's a bloody pest. I searched everywhere for it but couldn't find it -- got some instructions over the web about how to remove it manually, but wanted time to backup files before I attempted it. (Neither Spyhunter nor Spybot seemed to get rid of it). But AVG have now finally picked up on it and a few moments ago, I updated -- lo and behold! svchosts.exe has now been virus-vaulted. At last. So if anyone has picked up this pest, I suggest you update your AVG. If you don't have AVG, then get it: http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php Get Sygate firewall, while you're about it. http://www.sygate.com/products/sygate-personal-firewall-pro.htm Both free. Cheers, Dex.

Users of MSN Messenger beware. A new Bropia worm variant is now spreading via the instant messaging platform. Users who are lured into opening the file called "SEXY.JPG" will find a photo of a roast chicken with a bikini tan line. Upon entering a computer system, the worm known as WORM_BROPIA.F will drop a copy of itself into the Windows system folder, and then try to send a copy of itself under file names such as Bedroom-thongs.pif, Hot.pif, Naked_drunk.pif, New_webcam.pif, and Underware.pif, to other MSN Messenger users on the contact list of an infected system. Said Mr Ang Ah Sin, the regional marketing manager for Trend Micro (Asia South), a network antivirus and Internet content security software and service provider: "With the popularity of instant messengers, home users are probably most at risk - this kind of worm uses humour to make people unaware that their systems are being infected via the backdoor." The company has issued a medium risk alert on the worm which has already been reported in Taiwan, China, Korea and the US. The worm also bears the AGOBOT worm, enabling it to expose the backdoors of infected systems to hackers. By opening the backdoor to your system, the AGOBOT worm or Bot programmes may allow commands to be executed by a remote user. This means that information such as your Windows Product ID can be stolen from your system. The worm affects Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 and XP platforms. You can use Trend Micro's online virus scanner, Housecall, check if your system has been affected.