Just to let you know that the virus has either got a cousin, or has gained power to mutate, cos I got a new wall post from a friend which says something along the lines of (this is one “she” – or it – posted on someone else’s wall) :

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Hello [recipent's name],
Steve told me something that blew me away, he has been taking growth pills from http://gainhuge.com.cn/ for the past eight months, and he is the talk of the dorm, never had girls now i cant count the chicks he’s with. The pills actually do work, they are guaranteed to work or all your coin back, yes this is the real deal you need to try it for yourself to believe and you wont be sorry!.

http://gainhuge.com.cn/
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If you read it carefully, it looks like it’s been roughly translated by an automate, from the mistakes and all…
I’ve crosssed the name steve in both friends’ lists, and neither the sender or the reipient have someone named steve in their friend list – so apparently the virus can’t access your facebook info… yet…
The virus seems to have spread to 11 of her friends, but from her notifications it doesn’t mention me, even though I got it, so lord knows how many people have really received it from her…
I have looked through the net (google, live search, ask, yahoo) for any threads concerning this new form of the virus, and haven’t found any, so I thought I’d comment about it here so that if anyone feels like looking it up theye might find it… And it keeps you up to date of course!

Ben.

The above was yet another link posted on my wall. Just thought I’d put that out there.

If you clicked on a link but declined the download, it shouldn’t have done you any harm – unless what you clicked on downloaded automatically. (It’s worth noting that the links are NOT google addresses, but rather a phishing site dressed up to look like google.)

From what I can tell, when you click the link the virus downloads a file to your PC which acts as some kind of spyware or whatever. If you’re worried your computer may have been infected, you can check by doing a Windows search for ANY files containing “picture_dl” (that’s the name of the download file).

If you have the file, delete it immediately and you should be fine – but the best thing to do in these situations is always to RUN A VIRUS SCAN on your whole system using whatever antivirus software you have installed, like Ben did above. It will safely get rid of any traces of a virus.

Hope that helps.