Removal tool to delete all known AOL Instant Messenger-related viruses.
The users of any
instant messenger client are usually easy objectives to cheat or have a virus installed on their computers, so clients like
AOL Instant Messenger, or
AIM, need the protection of programs like
AIMFix.
We have all received on some occasion the typical message from a friend written in another language and that invites us to
download a file that is "supposed" to be photographs. Nevertheless, if instead of quickly clicking on the file, we wait to think, the normal answer is that our friends computer is infected with a
virus that spreads in this way, and that is trying to tricks us. So that this kind of virus doesn't spread, the best thing is to launch
AIMFix now and again, because if
fixes the security failures in AIM and eliminates malicious code if it finds it.
So if you want to
eliminate any threat, be it a
virus, spyware, trojan or malware in general, the best idea is that you periodically start
AIMFix so that you
AOL Instant messenger is clean and disinfected.