New Worm Chats with Users on AIM

goldseries writes "CNet is reporting that a new IM worm chats with users to get them to down load a file containing a virus. The virus replicates its self and sends its self out to user's buddy lists. The virus will reply 'lol no this is not a virus.' The virus hides users from seeing the messages sent out to members of their buddy list. Viruses are evolving; now they will even talk to you."

Comments

The newest front

[sammy baby]

The virus will reply 'lol no this is not a virus.'

My friends, we are fighting a war: a war on stupidity.

And clearly, we are losing.

Re:The newest front

[Gadgetfreak]

You know, honestly, we've been fighting stupidity for quite some time now. More and more it seems like most of my fellow Americans want someone else to take responsibility, and someone else to take care of their problems for them. There's a general lack of desire to be intelligent or self-reliant. With advancing technology, more and more people begin to fall behind... it's getting to a point where people just aren't smart enough to take care of themselves.

Re:Eliza Virus?

[meringuoid]

Let me know when it will have hot N3TS3X with you, and I'm in!

The frightening thing is, that would probably be pretty easy to code. The net is full of freely-available pornographic stories; extract a whole bunch of phrases from those, use an Eliza-like system to select the right one for the circumstances and incorporate elements of what the user just said into your response...

You could write up a pretty effective cybersex bot, and you could program it to offer to send across 'cam pix' once in a while. Which would, of course, be virus-ridden.

Better yet, once you've written it you could have it communicate with sad lusers via SMS at, oh, 20p per message. And make a killing. Excuse me, I have an Eliza-bot to hack up with some pornography. bbl, d00dz.