If your Messenger displays a roast chicken with a bikini, your PC has been infected by the new Bropia.E and Gaobot.CTX worms.

I couldn’t think of a better way to start off than to quote this item from the latest Panda security newsletter. Once you’ve had a bikini-clad chicken encounter, where can you go from there? Still, it’s a very real threat and not an April Fool’s joke. Continued, the article goes on:

“Bropia.E sends itself out through the instant messaging program MSN Messenger and, at the same time, downloads the new Gaobot.CTX worm, which can be controlled remotely in order to download all types of malware to computers.

“PandaLabs detected Bropia.E and Gaobot.CTX, two malicious codes that spread together. Bropia.E sends itself out using the instant messaging program MSN Messenger disguised as an image file with a .pif or .scr extension. A long list of options are used to name the file, but some Some examples are:

“bedroom-thongs.pif, LMAO.pif or LOL.scr.

“If the user runs the file, it displays a curious image on screen. However, this image is just a cover up to hide the real actions carried out by the worm. This malicious code sends itself out to all the contacts in MSN Messenger and creates various files on the computer, including a file called winhost.exe, which actually contains the Gaobot.CTX worm.”

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