"yourproduct.com" virus in POL viewerFollow

Hi, I just REALLY wanted to inform as many FFXI players as possible about a problem with a virus that actually infected my playonline viewer. I was sitting on a lan with my boyfriend, him on one comp, and me on another. Well in the middle of a tough area for us, he suddenly got kicked out. He tried to log back in right away but when he clicked on playonline viewer icon, he was given a message that his trail period had expired and he must go to yourproduct.com to regeister (PS, don't go there).

Well we went there and saw all sorts of stuff, gil for sale, hacks, stuff we're pretty sure Squarenix wouldn't support. We soon realized it was a virus. Something called the "pinfi" virus I read one place, and they said ad-aware would fix it. so we got ad-aware and tried to run it. Come find out, this virus disables your ability to run most .exe programs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We tried to run virus checkers, goback, nothing would run. And we tried looking in the registry keys, and using the search function from the start menu. Even "add and remove programs" from the control pannel was disabled! I was afraid to reboot because of one site saying their laptop had the virus and would no longer boot when they tried to reboot, but I had no choice. We rebooted and hit the space-bar to activate goback before windows started. That was the only thing that helped. Also, I modified a file at the following location that seemed to be infected: C: programFiles\PlayOnline\SquareEnix\PlayOnlineViewer\viewer\com\app.dllI do have a question... I modified this file and I'm not sure if it was just infected by the virus, or if it IS part of the virus. Could someone check to see if they have this same file? If it really is a playonline file that's supposed to be there, re-installing/re-patching should fix my prob. If it's not supposed to be there, I can delete it.

Thank you for your time.

Thnx fot your post... but it is a well known fact... If you go to symantec.com they have a tool for it...