New Yahoo Messenger Infection
Written by IT News on 9:40 AMBy: Bogdan Popa, Security and Search Engines Editor
Security Company Sophos has published a consultative one of the most popular instant messaging clients on the Internet, namely Yahoo Messenger. According to the security notice, a new worm found in the wild, which only targets to Yahoo Messenger users, and attempts to distribute and sending relations victim contacts. W32/VB-DZE has several aliases, as follows: IM-Worm.Win32.VB.ev, W32/Autorun.worm.h, Win32/VB.NJO worm and WORM_VB.MAB. The worm affects only the Windows operating system, as it tries to establish itself in the registry OS.
Once you have your computer is infected with the worm, it tries to distribute its files by sending a reference to a copy of it on all contacts stored in Yahoo Messenger contact list, Sophos explains. Just as many other Windows infections, the worm tries to change some registry entries so that it is done after the operating system is fully loaded.
Taking into account the fact that Yahoo Messenger is a very popular instant messaging client, special caution is recommended when chatting with unknown persons. In addition, you are encouraged to ignore messages from sources do not believe and not clicking on links that look suspiciously.
Similarly, as usual, you are advised to keep your antivirus and other security solutions up-to-date with the latest virus definitions and install the latest patches, in order to be sure that none of these infections are able to infiltrate your system.
Sophos has comprehensive protection for this threat to its security, and I think other companies will do the same, only at any time, if they have not already done so. Nevertheless, through the application of security measures mentioned above, you are nothing more than assure that you will remain a reliable and the data inaccessible to other people.
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