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?

Posted on November 7th, 2006 | Category: Threats |

20 Responses so far

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 :).

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.