IM game spreads virulent ad-delivery software
Date: Friday, February 13 @ 09:34:51 CET Topic: Internet
Some users of the popular AOL Instant Messenger program were bombarded Wednesday with messages seemingly from friends that linked to a humorous Osama bin Laden game.
Downloading the game, however, installed a piggybacking program that broadcast the advertisement from the infected computer to all correspondents on its AIM buddy lists.
Admin's Note: I received two of these types of messages - one on Wednesday, and one on Thursday.. If you have relatives (especially elderly ones) who use AIM, please inform them of the dangers... ;)
For the full story please go here http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/02/11/instantmessenger.ad.ap/index.html
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