AIM virus going around

Yes, I know. AIM is a bad thing to use because so many viruses go around. Well, for the first time in about a decade, (the entire portion of my lifetime that's had computers in it) I have never gotten a virus. I keep both McAffe and Norton on my system, even though they hate each other. (don't ask how i made that work)
Unfortunatly, it would seem that something i ended up at via a link, has messed with my copy of AIM, so that I now end up sending that link to anyone on my buddy list every few hours. It's a bit of a bother. So, I've been told by the only person who clicked a link they got from me, that re-installing AIM fixed the problem. For me? Not good enough. I wanna find out where it's getting the randomized URL for the links from, and report the SOB who started this to that fancy-pancy group of cops that track down virus-makers. Does anyone know where I might find a way to look at the data my computer is recieving

It might be good for me to note that I'm not quite posting this in search of removing the virus, but tracking it's source instead.

 

Few things to say. First, maybe you started typing a reply before I had finished editing my message, or maybe for some strange reason you can't read. I doubt that the latter is the case, for if you were unable to read, you woldn't have replied to begin with. But I said,

There was a reason for that. I am not looking to remove the virus. I managed that in 30 seconds. The problem is that I want to-

Second thing, I don't care what the companies say, I have both running, and they both work. Not only that, but the last time I got anywhere near a virus, I got two pop-ups notifying me that there was a virus to be killed. The only choice I had to make is which program to tell to shut-up, and which to tell to destroy the virus. But yet again, I'm not looking to kill the virus that I already got rid of.

Third and finally, It is of no use to you what HIJackThis says is running on my comptuer, when all I'm asking for, is-

And, Just to make this clear, Before deleting the virus, I copied it to a CD. Thus, I can still re-infect my computer for the purpose of watching the connections it makes, without causing anything to happen that I can't already fix.

 

Ok, so just say so. "We're not here to help trace viruses, we're here to help get rid of them." Is that so hard?

That's all I was looking for here to begin with, was something to help me capture said packets. Majorgeeks.com- Is not the main purpose of the site programs with a forum for discussing them? If not, then the site needs to be reorganized to be a forum with programs on the side.

I really don't care how much they know, or how much more/less I know. I know, that If I use an emulator to run another instance of windows, I can have one anti-virus program in one instance, and the other in a second instance. I'm not saying I'm smarter than them, I'm saying that I'm running them under different systems on the same machine. No problems that way!

 

No, I originally said don't ask how. Running emulators isn't something most people would take the time to do, or would care about having me explain. It's easier to say don't ask, than it is to explain it.

Because I don't have any knowledge about packet capturing and sniffing tools as of yet, hence my coming here and asking. But anyway, thanks for telling me where I can start my search for learning this stuff. That's all I was after.

 

Running an AV scanner inside an emulator and an AV scanner on the native OS, is not the same as running the 2 antivirus applications on the same OS; for all pratical purposes you are running two seperate systems.

Before you tell me I have no idea what i'm talking about. I run VmWare Server on CentOS 4.3 with Windows 2000 Professional running inside VmWare; and unless you connect the "Virtual Machine" to the network it won't see the other "Machine".