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- toastgodsupreme, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2HiddenLYNX:
So you think college campuses are the biggest havens for these viruses? Doubtful. Out of 30,000 computer users, only about 1,000 in total have been knocked off the network for infection of the latest wave of viruses to hit in the past month.
They get the idea real fast though when we force them to reinstall Windows and won't unblock them until they do. You want the kid not to touch the stove? Stop warning him and let him touch it once. He'll learn real fast that it hurts to get burned and that he shouldn't keep doing it.
tsupersonic:
Who exactly are you calling pathetic? The only reason you're not sitting there crying about the virus IM'ing your friends is because you had SpySweeper stop it. By having clicked on that link, you have no right to call any other user who has done the same, pathetic.
ajbalash:
Aim AdHack with 5.9.3861 works just fine. Though I can bet that even if everyone in the country was running 5.2.3277 as you are, the viruses would still be as rampant as they are now. Everyone bashes AOL because hell, it's AOL. But they're the same people using their IM service to keep in touch with friends. Maybe you can start bashing AOL when you run Trillian or GAIM full time. Would love to see the day when AOL goes "Screw them, they don't like our products, fine, only registered AOL users get to use AIM." Though they'd never cut off such a large user base because a few idiots bad-mouthed them.
All in all, this is how things are. Viruses will spread, people will eventually get tired of getting them and start to be more paranoid. Until then, we point and make fun of the silly people who get them. If I can teach my aging mother not to download viruses from email and so forth, anyone can learn.
Though I can't explain why Iain Thomson is writing an article on such an old topic just now. It's not like this wave of viruses is any different from the last... "SURPRISE! I do the same thing as the last 20 viruses that came through AIM, think anyone will still fall for it? YUP!" - MRSA, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Here's the original posting... which has no real details either...
http://www.websensesecuritylabs.com/alerts/alert.php?AlertID=324 - balazs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1" "Special website"? You mean AOL.com? "
LMAO
It's always AOL - billflu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Haven't these been around for a while now? The only reason they keep spreading is because idiots click on the links and download the file.
- MRSA, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm calling bravo sierra on this one. I haven't seen one computer person reporting details of anything NEW in the wild. There are a ton of aol viruses out there at any time.
- dacompmandan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah, over 10 people on my list got it. It tells you how stupid they are... The problem is, they keep randomly signing on, spamming everyone, then signing off... IT IS SO ANNOYING!
- SmeRndmGy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0spyware? on an AOL product???? you people do know that the default AOL installer installs various products that some people consider to be spyware. AIM itself is adware, with big annoying flashing ads, some of which make loud sounds. Switch to an open source program like GAIM and you wont regret it. also, if firefox is your default browser you have an extra layer of protection against this type of virus, even if you're stupid enough to click on the link. you would then have to download the file to your hard drive, and then run it if you wanted to get the virus. if you use AIM and IE its easy.
- DiMo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://www.jayloden.com/aimfix.htm
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0mrsa, O&A army?
- HiddenLYNX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0toastgodsupreme:
1 in 30, thats still bad odds.
its 3.3%...
also these viruses dont always kick people off, and my friends wouldnt know the first thing about reinstalling windows, and for bloody hell's sake, you dont need to reinstall windows off an AIM virus...
oh wait i read more, the past month, that makes it sound worse. Im not trying to bash you but people do not have common sense about computers, it turns out only a select few actually can handle working on computers. My school added a thing CleanAccess to make sure people were upto date and virus free, yeah, all the people i know had issues for at least a week, Me, i was fine, im running OSX, and at the time kubuntu, then i finally got my windows to install, and i havnt had to deal with any issues - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0rwvolkl158 -
I've always thought the same thing! Wtf is up with that? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2"Special website"? You mean AOL.com?
- DiMo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0aim gets hit by viruses all the time.
usually this does the job to delete the problem www.jayloden.com/aimfix.htm - torunforever, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Variants of this worm have been around for a while. Here's one listed at McAfee's Virus Information Library from May 2, 2005
http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_133397.htm - RWVolkl158, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Using .Com for both executables and websites was a big mistake... I think the reason a lot of people fall for this is that they don't realize .COM files are executables since people are so used to websites ending .com
- egamma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The reason why this particular Trojan outbreak is so nasty is because the virus companies don't have definitions out for these viruses--there's a new one every week (Sdbot.add, sdbot.ado, worm.opanki.m, and several others). It's hard for those of us who have to disinfect systems to do so when our virus scanners can't detect what they are supposed to.
- leitjaxon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It was sent to me and i clicked it, but i have a mac.
buy a mac. - tsupersonic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ha, pathetic, I have windows, and AIM. One of my not so computer literate buddies sent me this link, I clicked on it, nothing happened because SpySweeper stopped it. Go Spysweeper!
- kkaabboomm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0yes...this has been around for many years, in many different forms...
you click the link, a website opens, a file downloads. in IE, this is bad (at least pre-sp2 IE, i dunno about now, but it seems like it still works). for firefox, i get a box asking me if i want to download this file. i said no, and went on with my life, always hovering over links people send me to see where they go. how is this new in any way, shape, or form? - striker87, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This went around my university a few weeks ago. I told people to not click on links in messages and to switch to Gaim.
- TheClone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Variants have been around for a while, but in the past week or so, I've had about ten of my buddies send me links to .com files, which I knew not to click.
This week was the first time in a long while that I've gotten those sorts of links. - ajbalash, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0aim 5.2.3277 with the ad box removed... about the last time AOL released a good product.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2They've isolated the virus, it seems to be called "AIM".
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0As usual, Linux users are unaffected. I want my cross-platform Trojan already.
- karamba_kid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I love being immune to this stuff (Thanks Linux!) also I tell all my friends and family to not run with Administrative privledges all the time. If they are just doing stuff like instant messaging and surfing the Internet, etc.. there is really no reason they should be running as Administrator unless they like getting viruses and having it effect the whole system ;) .
- aresef, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I love being immune to this stuff (Thanks to Trillian)
- adml_shake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@ toastgodsupreme
That might be at your School, but I know that the 2 big schools here got hit pretty hard with it. I have friends that don't use anything else that goto both of them, so yes I got a bunch of those IM's that looked like a pic link and was actually a .com file. I didn't click on it till I asked what it was, but I know tons of people that wern't as smart and now have spyware galor running on thier systems. I've been making some fat cash ;) $$ - michaelsb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Complete details on this worm and the rootkit that it installs can be found at http://www.facetime.com/pr/pr051028.aspx
- CaptSnuffy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"I love being immune to this stuff (Thanks to Trillian)"
It's not really clear in the article whether the links get sent around via a hole in the AIM sevice or the AIM software made by AOL? Does anyone have a definitive answer whether or not people using gaim or trillian can get the link sent to them? - Dan™, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I got this one, got rid of it pretty fast though. Not sure if I had the same thing, but it screwed up all my Internet clients until I ran an AIM virus fix program that I have.
- torunforever, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's probably too late for anybody to be reading this, but I get the idea that many of you think your buddies are intentionally sending you the links. It's not them, it's the virus. That's the point of it. Once infected, the virus will automatically send the link to everyone on the buddy list.
You can call your buddies stupid for clicking on the link, but not for sending you the link. - AuAndCs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"I love how it spreads like wildfire on a college campus, Ive been told that colleges are a breading ground for stupidity, but i thought they were referring to liberals, apparently stupidity is much more worse then thought."
Yes... much more worse... - thisdude415, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0IT opens a link which happens to be a script in your internet browser when you click on the link. IE is set by default to run it, so, by using GAIM, your arent immune, you are by running firefox tho... saw it while i just so happened to be running a live cd version of linux, and thought, oh, what the heck, and clicked it, it was a script indeed, (VB, maybe, but not sure.) hope that helps.
- cbotwell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0hahaha my roomate had this at my uni like a couple of weeks ago and then like everyone i knew had it in a couple of days lol
- thewebguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0lol wtf there have been scores of these already.
- JordanAustin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The Virus that installs the spyware is finally pinpointed.
Turns out it's called AOL Instant Messenger. - chuckmo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I use Adium, an open source IM client like gaim, on my mac and i still got them. its just a link
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0AOL sucks bum... msn is where its at
- gfreak49, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0A friend actually sent this to me. I knew it was a virus, so i scanned it with my anti-virus, as usual, before i ran it. saved me some trouble. why cant everyone else do this?
- reversial, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Heheh... AIM n00bs. Wait here while I laugh...
- striker1211, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I made a program called SD-Bot, to act as a local relay, and pestpatrol called it sdbot spyware... lol...
- drunkenpope286, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0DAMN i hate aim, but sadly all of my friends use aim so i am stuck with the ***** quality of aol.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0ok ok ok...here is a suggestion. dont be a ***** imbecile. when your friend messages you with:
LOL!@@#!@!@ LOOK AST THESE PCIS!!!! THEY ARE SO FUNNY!@@!@!@!!@!@
DONT OPEN IT. How stupid are people. If your friend actually talks like that to the point it looks real, they need shot. - synmoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I thought this would be a link to the Triton beta. Long live GAIM.
- crazyman8787, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well i've seen one very similar to this. But in my case wut happened wus my friend would send me a link from Myspace and it said is that you? at the end. wut they didn't know is that they were automaticly sending it to all of their buddies. BUT i have mac os x........so I wasn't affected...just annoyed by all my friends who kept sending it to me.
- snyd3r, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0this is pretty old
- junkyinny, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0aol is the virus
- LtCarter47, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I saw someone on my list with one of these last night, checked the link and the .com file appeared on my desktop. Simply deleted it. Score another one for OS X. Minus one for me for not reading the whole away message.
- HiddenLYNX, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0I love how it spreads like wildfire on a college campus, Ive been told that colleges are a breading ground for stupidity, but i thought they were referring to liberals, apparently stupidity is much more worse then thought.
There has been a bad case of stupidity ravaging the world. This epidemic outbreak is worse then expected. some experts say could be the next devastating disease to hit the world. One expert saying "the problem with America is stupidity, not saying there should be capital punishment, but we should take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve its self" The question now is, should we let the disease run its course or should the UN try to intervene. It seems public awareness only made the issue worse. More on the 10:00 news. - DardanAeneas, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0That's not a virus, that's just AIM's default install.
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