Disappearing or Closing Task Manager from AIM Virus/Trojan/Worm

Contributor Icon Contributed by davak Date Icon September 2, 2004  
Tag Icon Tagged: Windows

If your task manager automatically closes itself, you have a worm. Here’s how to regain control of your system. This bug is typically known as the Best Friends / Away Message virus.


One of our new members, Mickey Mouse, has been trying to help some visitors clear their system of the Best Friends / Away Message AIM virus. Some versions of this virus will automatically close the task manager. If you can’t kill the bug with the task manager, then you can’t clean your system.

(If pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL only causes your task manager to show for a brief second, then you have this problem.)

This freeware program will allow you to kill you malware process in question:

After you download and install this program, use it instead of taskmanager to follow the directions in Mickey’s original recipe:

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