Beware of this IM Virus
For the past few days I have been getting funny PMs from a few people on my Yahoo! Messenger Buddy List. These are some of the messages that I got.
Breaking news : school girls are kidnapped by the terrorists !! hxxp://mytermex.com/?news_id=18388
damn, she is so cute hxxp://nsl-school.org?id=miss_world
you are virus infected . Use this tool to remove viruses from your PC : hxxp://mytermex.com/?id=virus_shield
oh my god , i’ve won a 20000 usd lottery :O hxxp://nsl-school.org/?id=winning_list . Come to my house tonight for a party !!
Luckily I was aware about this virus as I had earlier read about it on Digital Point Forum.
After you get infected by the virus, it will try to kill your AntiVirus and will instantly send a PM to all your IM buddy friends. The virus does not affect Firefox and Opera, but IE users are going to have a tough time with it.
Have you come across this IM Virus? If yes, how did you get rid of it?
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Posted on November 7th, 2006 | Category: Threats | 20 Comments »
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XhacK
November 7, 2006 at 10:53 pm
“but IE users are going to have a tough time with it.”
why i`m not surprised?!!
Shivaranjan
November 7, 2006 at 11:22 pm
Till now I have not got any of those messages in my yahoo messenger, but a security alert was sounded in my workplace about this two weeks ago.
Madhur kapoor
November 8, 2006 at 3:14 am
I also havent received such messages but thanks for the warning .
JohnTP
November 8, 2006 at 5:18 am
This virus has been around for more than a month now.
Srinivasa Ramanujam
November 8, 2006 at 2:57 pm
So far, no issues. But thanx for your warning
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Amey jahagirdar
November 8, 2006 at 6:11 pm
hey now i understand why one of my friend sending me that kinda msj so i warned him now and his has updates his anti virus and checked for any.
Then i got my complete system scan after this, luckely i have not been infected so far
patrick ghose
November 9, 2006 at 11:00 am
Ok! while i haven’t got the virus since i use FF, out of curiosity i would appreciate you telling me if you can, how soon do anti-virus programs update once a virus is detected? is it that easy to crack the code? mine, avast, sometimes updates twice a day, and seems to be doing its job so far.
Deep
November 9, 2006 at 11:58 am
My sister’s machine had got infected by this virus. My idiot cousin clicked on one of those links and Mcaffe could not kill that virus.
So, I removed mcafee, installed nod32 with latest updates, it detected the virus, deleted it and then ran ad-aware to delete thos registry keys which had disabled task manager and home page change option in IE.
Shivaranjan
November 9, 2006 at 2:16 pm
I rarely use IE, the default browser on my computer is Opera 9.10 so I am always safe from these malicious attacks.
JohnTP
November 9, 2006 at 2:24 pm
patrick ghose- My Norton AntiVirus updates automatically. I recommend you set your AntiVirus to update automatically too, so that you don’t have to worry about the updates
Deep
November 9, 2006 at 4:20 pm
hmm I had my mcafee uptodate but I still got infected
JohnTP
November 9, 2006 at 4:51 pm
Deep- Is nod32 good? I want to install an AntiVirus that is less resource hungry.
JohnTP
November 9, 2006 at 4:53 pm
Also, use Firefox or Opera to be safer
Deep
November 9, 2006 at 4:56 pm
Yea its pretty light, I can see it currently taking around 24 MB of memory…
Deep
November 9, 2006 at 5:15 pm
hmm it has nothing to do with browsers, it doesnt containt any virus in the home page link its a spam site but the virus is in the link whcih it sends through yahoo messenger messages
Richard
November 16, 2006 at 9:42 am
The major anti virus sites (AntiVir,Norton,McAfee) do not have protection for this virus yet…
Try doing a search on the major virus sites for
nsl-school virus
also it does not matter what browser you are using!!!
if you use Yahoo IM you are at risk..
–Richard
Shivaranjan
November 16, 2006 at 10:50 am
Nod32 Antivirus is very less resource hungry and updates automatically and has got very fast scanning speeds when compared to other antivirus engines. I also heard kaspersky is also equally good but I never tried it.
padmaja
November 23, 2006 at 8:24 pm
how can i get rid of the virus
its becoming a nusence when i get offlines i think i opened the message thats it it is just irritating my com