New Worm

20 May, 2006 at 5:49 pm (Posts)

If you use Yahoo Instant Messenger or any other IM program, be wary of links you click on. A new worm has started spreading via these IM programs, which changes your background, starts looping some aparently awful music in the background quite loudly, installs it "Safety Browser" ironic or what, changes your homepage, starts sending out the link to go and get yourself infected when your chatting and looking at someone's yahoo profile, and sends you to adverts sites which riddle your computer with all sorts of nasties. If I can get hold of a copy of this, i'll try it on a virtualised Windows Install and report back.
So, even if you are talking to your friends and they sned you a link, be extremely wary, for all you know, they could be infected, that link could get you infected too!

For more info: http://blog.spywareguide.com/mt/mt-tb.cgi/55

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