New MSN Messenger Trojan Spreading Quickly

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New MSN Messenger Trojan Spreading Quickly

Unread post by Anach » Mon Nov 19, 2007 3:20 pm

An MSN Messenger Trojan is growing a botnet by hundreds of infected PCs per hour, adding VMs to the mix as well.

The malware is being introduced by MSN Messenger files posing as pictures, mostly seeming to come from known acquaintances



http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,22 ... X1K0000594


Suggest keeping updated with your MSN client. 8.5 final has been released recently.
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