just so that i don’t keep getting these jokeword.biz viruses, everyone should read about this icq worm going around
Invitations to a malicious site lead ICQ users to the jokeworld.biz Web site, where vulnerabilities in both Internet Explorer and Windows are used by the hacker to download the worm and launch it on the compromised machine. Bizex spreads by hijacking ICQ contacts from the infected machine, then sending IMs with the link to jokeworld to all those contacts.
Additionally, Bizex includes a keylogger component that intercepts data transmitted via HTTPS (the encrypted version of HTTP), typically used to move financial transactions, such as those between a user and his bank. This data is also sent to the remote server.
good thing i don’t use icq anymore.
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