| MSN Virus discovered in Taiwan |
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| Friday, 09 February 2007 | ||||
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Lots of them have received a link from friends regularly registered in their list of contacts. Once they clicked over it, they discovered a backdoor virus has been installed on their computers. Many users declared that as first their list of contacts disappeared and it became impossible to close MSN Messenger. Some of them said that data was wiped off their computers, while others admitted that nothing untoward after clicking on the Messenger link. There are is no clear information about the nature of the virus or about how widespread was, indeed on the one hand MSN representatives claimed that they detected a backdoor virus named BKDR_RINBOT.A, and on the other experts from the Chinese division of Symantec said that it could be identified as the Backdoor.irc.Bot virus. According to Symatec, the virus uses the contact list to send the link so that the recipient will be taken off guard. The purpose of this kind of attack is both to obtain more contacts to continue to spread the virus, and to gain full control of the infected computer. Moreover, it was verified that infected computers would execute the virus every time the computer was rebooted and tried to connect to an IRC chat room server so that computers connecting to that server would become infected by the virus.
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