Hey I think my computer has a virus... most of my mp3 files has been attacked by vbs files and they're I think infected becuz I can't open them or do anything else with them... and this one Linux32 thingly keep on popping out with my windows media player everytime I turn on the computer... wat is wrong??? I heard it's a virus... is it???? I need answers.... If someone know please tell me...

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vbs files are VBScript Files.

VBScript is a scripting language made after the Visual Basic programming language. It's versitile functions & structure make it one of the best languages to make WORMS.

From what your saying, you probably got infected with a few vb worms. Some script kiddy probably created a worm, renamed it to something similar to an MP3 like for example:

Ashanti - Foolish.mp3.vbs

and put it on a file sharing program such as KaZaa to share.

Although KaZaa has filtering against *vbs files, it cannot detect secondary file names (most of the times)

So to a victim, the file would look like:

Ashanti- Foolish.mp3

in the Search box. To protect against this, be sure to look at MP3 file sizes, rather than just clicking the mp3 file just cause it says that it's the song. Any REAL MP3 will have at least a file size thats a Megabyte or more. If the Mp3 file has a size of like 4 Kilobytes (KB) or anywhere in Kilobyte size, don't download it.

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Oh ok... I see... Thanks... but another question... can this happen in audiogalaxy??? Because I think that this problem occured from there, although I'm not sure... it could possibly be kazaa though... because my cuzin also downloaded something from there the same day I downloaded some songs from audiogalaxy with the very same day the "worms" attacked... anyway I'm just curious...

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