New MSN Messenger Trojan Spreading Quickly

by ianivs | November 19, 2007 at 02:30 pm | 840 views | 3 comments

Suspensions for alleged computer hacking

If you use MSN Messenger, beware. A new trojan has already infected thousands of computers by sending what looks like picture files from one of your contacts. These files, when opened infect the computer with a bot that then logs into a IRC network to wait for further instructions.

It isn't known yet what the purpose of this bot network is.

The malware is being introduced by MSN Messenger files posing as pictures, mostly seeming to come from known acquaintances.

The infection vector—an IM program—isn't new. But the Trojan is the first that eSafe has tracked that has tried to scan for VNC (Virtual Network Computing) instances, likely in order to multiply the botnet's number of connections.

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liamssoft

at 14:44 on November 19th, 2007

good stuff:

ianivs, Thanks for the Warning.... Good stuff.

Luiz Castro

at 17:41 on November 22nd, 2007

good stuff:

ianivs, Good stuff.

ifindtrends

at 18:19 on November 22nd, 2007

good stuff:

Thanks for the Alert. Hackers have started attacking the social networking sites latley with the myspace hack and videos. Maybe we could start a tag to follow the latest virus/trojan news.

Good Stuff