What to do with spyware attempt

Hi all,

Recently I was sent a message through MSN from a known contact which had a
link which I stupidly clicked on, which of course put spyware on my PC. I
believe I have succesfully removed this. It does not appear to be a virus
because I have scanned my entire PC with AVG and McAffee, both of which found
nothing.

Fortunately a friend of mine who automatically got the same link from my MSN
messenger, was smart enough not to click it, and actually sent me the link on
my email. I want to submit this to Microsoft so they can do something with
it, and add it to their Windows Defender product or something, but unless I
am missing something, they only allow you to submit files which you believe
are infected...

Now obviously I am not clicking it again and infecting my machine just so I
can send the files... Is there anywhere which I can forward the email with
the dodgy link in so they can deal with it?!

UselessUser <UselessUser@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Recently I was sent a message through MSN from a known contact which
> had a link which I stupidly clicked on, which of course put spyware
> on my PC. I believe I have succesfully removed this. It does not
> appear to be a virus because I have scanned my entire PC with AVG and
> McAffee, both of which found nothing.
>
> Fortunately a friend of mine who automatically got the same link from
> my MSN messenger, was smart enough not to click it, and actually sent
> me the link on my email. I want to submit this to Microsoft so they
> can do something with it, and add it to their Windows Defender
> product or something, but unless I am missing something, they only
> allow you to submit files which you believe are infected...
>
> Now obviously I am not clicking it again and infecting my machine
> just so I can send the files... Is there anywhere which I can forward
> the email with the dodgy link in so they can deal with it?!

Not that I know of, unfortunately. I think it's admirable that you want to
try to warn others, but I think the best course of action is really going to
be to delete whatever you've got & move on. Remember not to click links from
anyone (even if they look like they're from friends) unless you're expecting
them - this is also true for e-mail attachments.

UselessUser wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Recently I was sent a message through MSN from a known contact which had a
> link which I stupidly clicked on, which of course put spyware on my PC. I
> believe I have succesfully removed this. It does not appear to be a virus
> because I have scanned my entire PC with AVG and McAffee, both of which
> found nothing.
>
> Fortunately a friend of mine who automatically got the same link from my
> MSN messenger, was smart enough not to click it, and actually sent me the
> link on my email. I want to submit this to Microsoft so they can do
> something with it, and add it to their Windows Defender product or
> something, but unless I am missing something, they only allow you to
> submit files which you believe are infected...
>
> Now obviously I am not clicking it again and infecting my machine just so
> I can send the files... Is there anywhere which I can forward the email
> with the dodgy link in so they can deal with it?!

No. Let it go.

Malke
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