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New IM Worm On The Loose

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the head-for-the-hills dept.

elfarto writes "Techweb is reporting that a new worm that spreads via Microsoft's instant messaging client began badgering users Monday, several security firms said. Dubbed Funner, the worm propagates by sending itself to all the contacts listed in the user's copy of MSN Messenger, Microsoft's IM client. There is an analysis on Symantec Security Response Site; apparently the worm tries to download stuff from www.78p.com and adds entries to the hosts file pointing to more that 400 Chinese porn sites. The worm also sends itself to the whole contact list as funny.exe so it requires the user interaction to actually execute it. "

10 of 407 comments (clear)

  1. Hi by apz · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'd like to put my worm in Sara.

  2. ouch by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ouch, that sucks.... damn, im first to post, sweet, saw it on the screensavers show.

  3. yup by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    me2

  4. New Colour Worm On The Loose by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This ought to fix it:

    http://shit.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/11/2 321219

  5. Aww by Easy2RememberNick · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Aw man! All I got was the "nothing to see here move along" dammit!

  6. Like the burning ring of fire worms... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I can remember the buring ring of fire that the little white bastards caused in my anus. Anyone that uses MSN messyassenger deserves what they get. My kid keeps putting that garbage client on my computer. I keep removing it...... Life goes on, even without Microsoft.

  7. Re:One more reason to use MSN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    while this joke has been used several times already, i hope the parent gets modded +5 for the format. Would have been much funnier if it were a first post... but it's still better than the previous attempts.

  8. Cmdtaco is an ass compared to Alex by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The stupidity wasn't empty when cmdrtaco was interviewed by kevin.

    Alex must be cmdtaco's brother cause both look and talk like jackasses.

  9. Compile It Baby! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I wonder how long until there is a virus that requires you to compile the code.

  10. Speaking of internet unpleasantness... by The+Master+Control+P · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ok, does this worm happen to use port 46204? Because I'm seeing 20 connection attempts a minute like this one go splat against my firewall... WTF is going on?

    > Oct 12 00:04:25 server kernel: Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=151.46.155.113 DST=69.224.41.18 LEN=64 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=111 ID=29343 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=1657 DPT=46204 WINDOW=65535 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0