MSN Messenger Virus!

Posted on Jul 26 in Tech Stuffby ApplePrint

Virus has revisited MSN or Windows Live Messenger. Watch out, all MSN or Windows Live Messenger users!! This morning right after I read a new blog entry “Live Messenger Virus: look at my summer pictures” in LiewCF.com, I received similar suspicious files from one of my friends in my contact list. This time, it was not sent together with any messages, just a file waiting for me to receive. It’s a zip file named picture041.zip. Few minutes later, another file was automatically sent to me by the name of images031.zip. Of course, I just declined it and asked my friend about it. She said she got this virus and didn’t know how to solve it. So I suggested a link which was posted in Liew’s blog. Hope she can follow the instructions and solve this virus problem. (Yea, for more details and removal instructions, please refer to LiewCF’s post.)

Here’s a quote from Liew’s blog:

About “summer2008.zip” virusAfter digging the Internet, I found a detail information page about the summer2008.zip worm or known as IRC-Worm.Win32.Agent.a (Backdoor.Win32.IRCBot.acd) by Kaspersky Anti Virus. The virus send random messages in different languages such as English and Chinese.

Upon execution of the worm (.scr file), it drops random file name in your Windows folder:

images0XX.zip
photos0XX.zip
albumXX.zip
photoXX.zip
pictures0XX.zip
pictureXX.zip
(XX is random digitals, such as album39.zip, images091.zip.)

So, please be alerted and DO NOT ACCEPT any suspicious files.

Lastly, another short note quoted from Liew:

Never open a downloaded file before scan for virus.

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I’m a fan of LiewCF.

4 Comments

• Cherry says:

  July 26, 2007 at 2:34 pm

  Thanks for telling me…=P
  And i’m ur fan too!
  BLEK

  Cherry

  Reply
• Orange says:

  July 27, 2007 at 12:14 pm

  I havent kena this virus or wadever but thanks for sharing anyway. Share the Lub

  Reply
• LeeChien says:

  August 6, 2007 at 5:29 pm

  hey, really thanks alot for you info…

  Reply
• Apple says:

  August 6, 2007 at 11:36 pm

  @cherry, you’re welcome. and thanks for making me your idol. =P

  @Orange, my love…u got someone ‘pro’ like me, the chances of u kena this should be 0.01% wahaha

  @dolphin, glad that this could help you.

  Also have to thanks LiewCF for letting us know where to find the solution.

  Reply

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