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Worm Spreading via Yahoo Messenger

 
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PostPosted: Fri May 07, 2010 2:02 am    Post subject: Worm Spreading via Yahoo Messenger Reply with quote

Apparently there is a new worm spreading via Yahoo Messenger. Here's a bit:

, while in fact they run the worm.

When the link is clicked, the default browser is redirected to the worm executable, which has a misleading name. Please note the file extension is actually “.exe”. In order to run, the worm still needs the user's...read more
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