Well, I apologize to anyone who downloaded AIMFix on Wednesday evening. There was a conflict with one of the brand new variants of the "Gabba" virus, and if you ran AIMFix, the "shell" for Windows was set to "Expl" instead of "Explorer.exe" - this results in your desktop not loading properly - no taskbar, icons, etc. I have corrected this, and anyone who was affected by that can simply re-run the newest version of AIMFix to repair this problem. If you're interested, the basic problem is that the virus edits the shell entry to make the virus run every time you load the shell (making it very difficult/impossible to remove).

AIMFix therefore removes the virus entry and replaces a clean one, but in this instance the replacement was incorrect and resulted in stopping the virus but messing up the system simultaneously. Again, I apologize to anyone who ran into this, but on the fortunate side, at least the only people affected are people who downloaded AIMFix on Wednesday from around 6-12 at night (GMT, so it was more like 1-7pm on the East Coast of the U.S.), and it's easily repaired by running the updated version. This is why I need a test machine I can infect with viruses and monitor properly, so I have an exact idea of what happens when encountering these viruses in the wild. Maybe someday I'll have enough money to get myself a copy of VMWare or VirtualPC (when I get my first Mac) and I can use that to test viruses in a controlled environment and remove them more efficiently.

-Jay