[Darksheare]

Antivirus software generally doesn't watch incoming files or javascripts coming through Instant Messengers.
Guess what.
My DEAR brother, I think, may have dusted my computer with something in just that manner by accident.
He jumped onto my machine twice after I asked him not to.
You kow those nice little icons in your start bar?
If your machine hangs up, those disappear.
Well, I got back from what I was doing and found that my icons disappeared and AOL Insatant Messenger had been on.
After that, I discovered a browser hijacker's leftover registry garbage.
Oddly, no actual virus has yet been found on the machine.

And so far, the only 'browser' being effected by it is AOL itself.
But, AOL is a skin of Internet Explorer.
IE hasn't bee hit by it yet.
ODD, very very odd.

[SAMWolf]

Yeah, I'm careful about who I contact on Instant Messagers, but my daughter has half her friends on there. I think Norton has options to scan some of the more popular IM's