'Leaked' E-Mail About Windows Live Messenger Really A Trojan
Posted by Steven Parker on 28 December 2005 - 11:01 · 22 comments & 4337 views
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#1 Posted by jwjw1 on 28 Dec 2005 - 12:31
- This is also one reason..why it was a bad ideal for those to post their emails begging for invites.
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#2 Posted by Jugalator on 28 Dec 2005 - 12:51
- "some began selling invitations to the beta test on eBay"
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#3 Posted by Blackice on 28 Dec 2005 - 13:12
- 'Leaked' E-Mail About Windows Live Messenger Really A Trojan
That title is really midleading - it makes you think an email from microsoft has leaked, confessing trojan behaviour of WLM.
Email about "leaked" Windows Live Messenger really installs trojan
That would be better
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#3.2 Posted by alerosenfeld on 28 Dec 2005 - 15:22
- I'm getting tired of these headlines. Everyone once in a while there is a headline that makes you say 'What the hell?', and when you read it, it has nothing to do with the story. Just like that pokemon gene, there was a headline that said 'Pokemon causes cancer', then you had to read the story to find that it was actually a gene nicknamed pokemon.
Its not the headline that makes a story interesting. All it does is make you bored with the news. -
#3.3 Posted by crimsonhead on 28 Dec 2005 - 20:11
- The headline is very misleading. I say "oh that may be interesting" and then I read the story and it has nothing to do with the headline. Big waste of time. I really don't care about trojan threats, I'm not stupid enough to get a virus or trojan.
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#4 Posted by jwjw1 on 28 Dec 2005 - 16:50
- Posted by Steven Parker...thats who you should take this up with...lol...I agree it should be something like "Fake" E-mail...but you know how people with press ideals are...they like to decieve people and then dig in their bag of deception and call it something else.
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#5 Posted by Allan® on 28 Dec 2005 - 16:58
- wow this is the first time my name has shown up on the Front Page!!! I feel special! *LOL*
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#6 Posted by Allan® on 28 Dec 2005 - 17:23
- EXCUSE ME ... the word "LEAKED" was what was on the main article. Therefore, you should take it up with ME or the writer from InfoWeek. Steve just copied what I had put.
Geeze get a life people and quit your whinin'
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#6.1 Posted by matt74441 on 28 Dec 2005 - 22:12
- Whoa, calm down buddy.
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#6.2 Posted by NeoTrunks on 29 Dec 2005 - 00:52
- True, the word 'Leaked' brought me to believe it wasn't an official email (or IM) from Microsoft.
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#7 Posted by jwjw1 on 28 Dec 2005 - 18:24
- na...they will only get with you on 'copyright' issues..since you posted the complete article..instead of 'quotes' or 'parpharses'...LOL but you did get 'thanks'
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#8 Posted by factoid on 28 Dec 2005 - 20:03
- wait... I am confused... Is it an email (as the title suggests) or is it an IM (as the first sentence suggests)?
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#9 Posted by Morganis101 on 28 Dec 2005 - 22:24
- I've heard about that. The new Hotmail doesn't even look that good. I was one of the lucky ones who got to test the new Yahoo! Mail Beta! -Alex
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#10 Posted by leojei on 29 Dec 2005 - 00:22
- Even if people gets the bits, they can't sign in anyways~ So this "working bits" sounds fishy.
ohh I got 3 invites left, who wants it?
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#11 Posted by Geo on 29 Dec 2005 - 05:59
- Crap journalism at its best (infoweek)... this is a better source: http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/ar...5.html#00000751
Is it just me or is the Neowin news staff starting to kinda suck?
The message, which refers to an alternate name for the upcoming Live Messenger, also sports a link. Users who click on the link, then download and run the executable, are in reality installing the Virkel.f Trojan.
Virkel.f adds the compromised machine to a botnet, from which the hacker can update the Trojan with additional malicious code, to make the PC into a spam zombie or along with others, launch a denial-of-service (DoS) attack on Web sites. Virkel.f also shuts down anti-virus and security software, and blocks access to sites that belong to security vendors.
This bot worm spreads by hijacking IM contact names from an infected computer, then spimming those names with new messages about the "leaked" client.
Live Messenger, which is being tested by a limited number of users, recently made news when some began selling invitations to the beta test on eBay.