Beccaning Call

Public Service Announcement

Allow me to reintroduce myself ... k, it's not Hova, but still, good stuff to know.

If you haven't already read about it, there are a some new AIM viruses out there floating around, and they're mimicking those annoying AOL Bots. They talk back to you and say stuff like "lol it's not a virus." I know most of yall are too smart to click on suspicious links, but they're getting tricky.

The most notable new threat is the IM.Myspace04.AIM worm. It attempts to convince AIM users to download malicious content. Once infected, the host acts as a bot by sending out new messages to infect others, plus responding blindly to messages it receives.

"When recipients of the malicious message reply to the infected user," IMlogic said in a release, "the Bot running on the infected machine sends follow-up messages that include "lol no its not its a virus."

The company added that one such message includes a URL to a .pif file on the myphotos.cc domain.

So there's that, which sounds quite fun, and then this:

Separately, a new variant of last winter's Aimdes worm has emerged. San Diego-based Akonix Systems Inc., Cupertino, Calif.-based Trend Micro Inc. and others report that W32/Aimdes.E is also propagating over the AIM network.

Classified as low risk, it spreads in the form of an IM greeting sent from one user to another. Trend Micro reports that it typically is accompanies by the following text:

This AIM user has sent you a Greetings Card, to open it visit: http://g{BLOCKED}aol.com/index.pd?source=christmastheme?my_christmas_card.COM

Once a user clicks the link, the worm installs itself on the host.

So just be careful.

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posted by Becca @ 1:45 AM