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Skype Worm Infects Windows PCs
walterbays writes with news of a worm spreading to Windows PCs through Skype's IM. The worm is variously called Ramex.a and Pykspa.d. A poster on a Skype forum explains how to remove it. "After hijacking contacts from an infected machine's Skype software, it sends messages to those people that include a live link. Recipients who blithely click on the URL — which poses as a JPG image but is actually a download to a file with the .scr extension — wind up infected."
I'm not sure how many Skype users would "blithely" click on anything.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
They're getting back at all the people who rebooted last month.
Hail Eris, full of mischief...
E pluribus sanguinem
s/some of the //
Given your position of first post, I can't see how you could be anything but the first to point out this.
blithely click my signature link for more information on this developing story!
Sig it.
As a US president once said :- "There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again."
That is a good point, and I must admit I thought that as well ... at first. Then I started thinking, How long is something really first? Is something first always first? Like the first European to visit the Americas, Columbus. He was first, but only for 400 odd years before we discovered that the vikings were the first. Also, one can never be so certain that time travel will never exist. Therefore, all of our first records in any given field may be only temporary, before some one from the future comes back and does it first.
I applaud the gp's modesty, and four dimensional thinking. I think we should all be a little more considerate of our resources, both natural and produced, in light of the fact that they may belong to someone else before us, in the future.
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
Yet again, us Linux users are left out. The program works only on Windows/x86. And here I am, on my glorious Linux/ppc box, just having painfully gotten Skype to work...and they introduce a new feature that I can't access...boohooo!
(I kid. I hate Skype passionately (for getting everybody on a proprietary solution when open protocols exist) and would never go through any amount of trouble to get it installed on my computer.)
Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
Ooh, a lesson in not changing history from mister "I'm-my-own-grandpa"!
New punctuation update "~" (no quotes) at the end of a line to indicate sarcasm. ~
Seems like such a person could make money honestly.
:-P
Anyone who can make $money honestly could make N * $money dishonestly.
How do you think corporatism works?
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
Do we really need the title to say "Windows PCs"? I thought that was implied any time malware was concerned.
Excuse me while I gather the virgin sacrifice and assemble the pentagram required to solve your problem
Most skype users don't know what blithely means. And are unaware of any fundamental difference between a spell-checker and a dictionary.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
When will native Linux support for this worm/trojan become available?
.scr to .pl ?
Also could you post the link so that I can try porting the
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
There, fixed that for ya.