Windows Messenger..sorry its a little long.

From: Shirl (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/27/04 

Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 15:49:48 -0700

I have recently recovered my pc due to a trojan that got
on to my pc somehow even though I had an up to date
firewall and antivirus package. As I was trying to get
all the microsoft updates again, I managed to land myself
with blasterworm, which i managed to get rid of.

Anyway, just to get to the point, I sorted my pc and
decided I wanted to use windows messenger, I already have
a msn account and was able to use windows messenger and
msn before this happend. A question popped saying that
before I would be able to use it I would need to update
it so I clicked yes and another box came up with the do
you want to install and run blah blah blah (i cant
remember exactly what it said), I do know that it said it
was from Microsoft.com so I trusted this and ran it,
afterwards my computer went crazy for about three
seconds. It then asked me to restart but i didnt, I had a
feeling something was wrong so I scanned, id picked up
sasser worm. Anyhow, im now rid of this but I still cant
use messenger, everytime I try to get on this I get asked
for the update and its just not happening. I went
directly to microsoft.com website and got a windows
messenger update directly from there and then all of a
sudden my documents were opening on their own...again,
did a scan but nothing this time.

Could someone help me please?

Ive ran every scan possible.

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