Chat Up Your Virus
from the yo,-how-you-doing? dept
There's been a lot of talk recently about new worm malware that's been using instant messaging programs to transport itself. However, the latest variation is even a bit sneakier. It will chat with the user it's infecting to try to convince them that the file they just sent isn't a virus ("lol no its not its a virus" is apparently one of the things it's programmed to say). Maybe those folks who have a patent on chat bots can go after the virus writers.
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I Hate Stupid People!
Tom: Hi... uhh do i know you?
Tim: Here check this out
user Tim is trying to send you a file named Jessica_Alba_Nude.jpg.vbs would you like to accept?
Yes/No
Tom: What is this?
Tim: Lol it's not a virus
Tom: Oh well I'll take the word of someone I don't know sending me a nude photo of a big named actress who doesn't do nude roles.
Narrator: Some people would pity poor Tom for trusting someone on the internet. Well I sure as hell don't. If you're stupid enough to open files from people you don't know over the internet then you deserve to have your identity stoled, your comxorz haxed, your first born child sold into slavery, your daughter impregnated by aliens, your wife to grow a penis bigger then yours, and your monitor to constantly project geigh manpr0n.
Some free advice; don't be stupid like Tom.
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Who knew?
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The messages aren't sent from some random person on the internet. They are sent to all the people on the affected person's contact list. Therefore the messages that infect you SAY they are coming from someone you know, not a complete stranger.
You may be right, don't open a file from someone you don't know on the internet. Most of us learned that a decade ago. However, this is much different and that's why it is newsworthy. When the virus is coming from someone you DO know, it's a little harder to pick up on the fact that you are receiving a virus.
ps. You're a complete idiot for using the terms "comxorz haxed" and "geigh manpr0n"
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An idiot no, a chicken like me? Sure why not...
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Whether, or not the files come from people on your buddy list, or strangers if a file extension is .ext1.ext2 it's generally smart not to open it. Especially if it's .vbs .vbe .scf .reg .bat etc...
And I don't know what type of people you have conversations with on AIM, but the people I conversate with don't repeat themselves incoherently at everything I say to them, and keep telling me to open a file they're sending claiming it's not a virus Pre-LoL.
ps. You're a complete idiot for trying to start the 100000000000000000000th message board flame war.
PPS. ESAD
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you greedy bastards
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