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ok, so yesterday i came home to find my brother's aim screen name signed off but there were a bunch of pop up boxes stating that there is a link trying to connect & need to be singed on to AIM. I thought this was nothing and restarted my computer. I then signed on to AIM and put up my away message. When i came back my default away message had been replaced by a link (it looked like a porm link). I turned off my away message and every couple minutes the away message would automatically turn on with the same link. A friend told me it was probably an aim virus, so i attempted to run my anit-vurs software but every time it tried to run them the window automatically closed. All programs having to do with virus support, aim support including websites close automatically. The trick of holding down ctrl + alt is the only thing that keeps the darn windows open. Ive run my different virus programs that way but it hasnt taken care of the problem.

Also, i came across AIMfix & used that.. it quarantined a file 23647_vzslzj.exe.bak. Now i dont know what to do with the file.. do i delete it? I then searched in google with the "vzslzj.exe" & i came across a posting in the "HighjackThis log" section. Does anybody have any experience dealing with this problem? =(

also, i dont know what happened but all of a sudden my computer screen display got rotated 90 degrees clockwise.. so now i have to look at my computer screen sideways. How do i adjust the setting on my computer back to a normal view?

hopefully i am in the right place with this posting. any help would be greatly appreciated. thank you so much!