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| |  Virus Alert: Spying worm spreads via MSN Messenger, AIM
Microsoft's MSN Messenger and America Online's Instant Messenger services are being targeted by malicious messages containing links that could infect a computer with a Trojan horse or dangerous worm.  | Quote: |  | | | | | | | | | | The latest threat is a Trojan called Kirvo, which arrives in the form of an instant message from someone on the user's "friends" list. The message contains a link to a Web site, which, if clicked on, loads a copy of Kirvo onto the computer, according to an advisory from security company Symantec. Kirvo is preprogrammed to then fetch a copy of Spybot, a dangerous worm that can take advantage of software vulnerabilities to spy on the user.
Tim Hartman, systems engineer director of Symantec in the Asia-Pacific region and Japan, said Kirvo worked in tandem with Spybot and the malware author's zombie army to seek out and infect more computers. | |  | |  | | |
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