AIM worm plays nasty new trick.
 

A worm found spreading via America Online's Instant Messenger is carrying a nastier punch than usual, a security company has warned.

The unnamed worm delivers a cocktail of unwanted software, including a so-called rootkit, security experts at FaceTime Communications said Friday. A rootkit is a tool designed to go undetected by the security software used to lock down control of a computer after an initial hack.

"A very nasty bundle is downloaded to your machine" when you click on the worm link, said Tyler Wells, senior director of engineering at FaceTime. "This is the first time that we have seen a rootkit as part of the bundle of applications that is sent to your machine. It is a disturbing trend."

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thats ugly.
"Bump"

its worth the read!

serves them right for using anything to do with aol

yes, but give it time, it will work its way into icq and other message services too.
rootkits are becoming popular with this kind of thing, these guys are getting smart.

The peeps that write this stuff are always one step ahead of a fix. Seems like just a big game to me. The way I figure it is Hackers, worm, virus and trojan writers get paid by the companies like Norton, Macafee etc... Gotta keep that cash flowing!

The security companies are obviously pro-hacker. They'd be out of business if they weren't.

Why do you think they go public with Windows security flaws instead of contacting MS in private? It's so the hackers can be alerted of the flaw, wreck havoc on computers and the public will then feel the need for security software.

That strikes me as hilarious seeing as how you have an ICQ # in your sig, and AOL owns ICQ, and all of your precious ICQ messages are going across AOL servers. :)

Looks like business will spike in the spyware removal business.

carzy crazy crazy

a few days ago someone posted some text from a site about brute forceing porn sites after I researched the site I found source code for this AIM worm

small world