AOL Problem - Virus?

[WJWheels]

A friend of mine called. She uses AOL and has teenagers. Lately when she opens AOL, it automatically goes to a "Male Point of View" chat room, goes into "scroll" mode, and starts spouting a bunch of foul epithets that include the active username.

How can I stop this for her?

TIA

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"It's not just the ups and downs that make life difficult; it's the jerks."

[glc]

Send her to www.moosoft.com to get a 30 day eval copy of The Cleaner and run it. Sounds like a trojan.

She also should have a current, *updated* copy of Norton or another good antivirus package installed, and run that too. I think you can still download a free copy of Inoculan.

Zone Alarm firewall wouldn't be a bad idea too, it's free.

[WJWheels]

Thanks for the comeback.. I just went to the moosoft site. That looks interesting. I'll sure try it.

I don't know what she has for virus protection. But I'm familiar with zonealarm, norton, and inoculateit. Between those we should get her protected.

Thanks again,