Apparently, there is some kind of confusion, at least with one particular person. I received the following in an email this afternoon from a fake email address:

DONT CHANGE MY BUDDY INFO AGAIN OR I SWEAR TO GOD I WILL GET UR WEBSITE DELETED

I'm not sure who sent this or why, but they appear to be under the mistaken impression that I or AIMFix is somehow magically changing their profile information. To clarify, in case anyone else has gotten this into their head somehow, AIMFix only changes your buddy info ONCE, when you run it, and then ONLY if it finds a virus file and removes it. As long as you don't run AIMFix again, or all known virus files are removed, the buddy info/profile will not be affected. The note left in the edited profile also says:

Please note: this is simply to notify you that the virus has been removed. You may delete this from your profile at any time

I'm not sure how this was confusing, but evidently it was to at least one person, so in case it is for anyone else, I thought I'd post a note here. If you have an AIMFix-created message in your profile, all you have to do is remove the message and it will never bother you again, unless you run AIMFix a second time to remove another virus file.

-Jay