Spider Bots= Death

So I am sitting at work yesterday doing my happy little job and I get an IM from a co-worker. It said: Hey is this you? :P Well since I work for Haunted House and LARP in full costumes with make up on, I figured there was a picture of me in a bunch of make up or something, I click on it and it asks me to download an application. So I send an IM to said co-worker saying I wasn't really willing to download something, can I just come over to your computer and take a look? Well I get the same exact IM from another co-worker who has never talked to me about some non work related before. The second I saw that I thought "Oh shit" All of a sudden everyone is getting the exact same IM from everyone. Ladies and gens, this is called a spider bot.

So what happened is lets call him Bob got an IM from his mom. Bob looked at this IM with the link in it, this link spidered into everyone in his friend list. Than it spread to everyone on there friend lists, than there friend lists and so forth. The virus none as "Trojan" downloaded onto my computer each time I got the IM, so like fifteen times. I logged out of MSN as soon as I could and than text messaged everyone I didn't work with that I could saying to ignore the IM. The anti-virus stuff automatically deleted the virus, or I thought. About 30 minutes later my IM started freaking out again and I lost all connectivity. Which meant every single tool I use to do my job...POOF!

I did a full virus scan, found the virus and tried to delete it. Didn't work, after trying about 50 things we just had to re imagine the computer. Sucky but no big deal. The way the virus works is as soon as the IM opens up (you click on it) it activates. Well, one guy was on lunch, he gets back and one of our supervisors tells him not to unlock his computer, he ignores her (cause he is an ass and always does what he want.), unlocks it and reinfects the entire office. Can we say douce bag?

We have pretty much gotten rid of the virus at this point but there are still traces of it around. Sometimes I wish I had a Mac...