Friday, January 21, 2005

MSN Messenger worm hijacks system info

<A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1752988,00.asp">A new Internet worm</A> is squirming through Microsoft's MSN Messenger chat network. According to an advisory from F-Secure, the new W32/Bropia-A worm uses MSN Messenger to lure users into downloading one of the following files: "Drunk_lol.pif"; "Webcam_004.pif"; "sexy_bedroom.pif"; "naked_party.pif"; or "love_me.pif." Once executed, Bropia-A also drops a variant of the Rbot backdoor Trojan. Rbot represents the large family of backdoors fitted with the ability to control a victim's machine remotely by sending specific commands via IRC channels.

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