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New Worm Targets Windows and MSN Messengers

A newly discovered Internet worm, dubbed “Bropia.A”, is targetting Windows and MSN Messenger messaging clients.

The worm does a host of nasty things, including sending a copy of itself to all of the messaging contacts found on the victim’s computer, installing a Trojan horse program which creates a back door to the system, and even disabling the right-click button on the victim’s mouse. And once installed, the Trojan horse can log keystrokes, detect information about the user’s system, and send additional instant messenger spam (known as “spim” - for Aunty’s clever ditty on spim… [Continued…]

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