Santa IM Worm Hits AOL, MSN and Yahoo

elmtree95 writes "CNET News reports A Santa Claus worm is attempting to trick America Online, Microsoft MSN and Yahoo instant-messaging users into clicking on a file that delivers unwanted software to a victim's computer. The IM.GiftCom.All worm attempts to dupe IM users into thinking an acquaintance has sent them a link to a harmless Santa Claus file. IM security vendor ELMTree Software has released a patch to their ChatPatrol (www.chatpatrol.com) product to address this issue."

Comments

I bet it isn't as good as:

[Anonymous Coward]

"lol, it's not a virus."

Dear Santa.w32...

[Anonymous Coward]

Please, please don't bring me any gifts. The bicycle you fired at me last year from your bicycle gun really tore up my insides.

-- AIM user

Santa's Motives

[setirw]

better !pout !cry
better watchout
lpr why
santa claus town
cat /etc/passwd >list
ncheck list
ncheck list
cat list | grep naughty >nogiftlist
cat list | grep nice >giftlist
santa claus town
who | grep sleeping
who | grep awake
who | egrep 'bad|good'
for (goodness sake) {
be good
}

Dang, I guess he really meant the last three lines!!

Re:Santa's Motives

[ErichTheWebGuy]

Personally, I woulda said:

mv /etc/northpole/santaclaus ~/town

But that's just me :P

What's next?

[queenb**ch]

Maybe we can push the Sony root kit out via IM to all of Sony's employees. Anyone know if they have a corporate IM server?

2 cents,

Queen B

Santa has less love for Linux users...

[cloricus]

You guys are the lucky ones as you can just ignore this lump of coal. Us poor Linux users will be up all Christmas night hacking away at wine to get this worm emulated so we don't feel left out.

Convincing the Windows crowd that we are compatible is such a pain... :(