>>"This is the first instance of a complete web browser hijack without the user's awareness. <<
A new type and level of threat - IMs are used more and more by non-techies.
1 posted on
05/21/2006 6:32:26 PM PDT by
gondramB
To: gondramB
So what do you do if you use Yahoo Messenger? Never let it boot again? Is there some remedy?
2 posted on
05/21/2006 6:36:23 PM PDT by
formercalifornian
(One nation, under whatever popular fad comes to mind at the moment, indivisible...)
To: gondramB
If this sort of thing were classified as a capital offense that upon conviction, carried a mandatory death sentence without any optional sentencing possible by the judge, you would see a dramatic decrease in hacking and other sorts of computer tampering.
4 posted on
05/21/2006 6:39:03 PM PDT by
mkjessup
(The Shah doesn't look so bad now, eh? But nooo, Jimmah said the Ayatollah was a 'godly' man.)
To: gondramB
5 posted on
05/21/2006 6:39:24 PM PDT by
freeangel
( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
To: gondramB
So if you don't use Yahoo Messenger you are OK?
To: gondramB
BTTT for future reading....
To: gondramB
The self-propagating worm spreads the infection to all contacts in Yahoo! Messenger by sending a website link that loads a command file onto the user's PC and installs Safety Browser. Can't they just shut down that website?
To: gondramB
I hate to say it but anyone using IMs are asking for trouble
16 posted on
05/21/2006 7:18:55 PM PDT by
UB355
(Slower Traffic Keep Right)
To: gondramB
Really feel sorry for you suckers using Windose... never learn anything?
Guess u get what u pay for... hehe
Its the price for sucking all the foul vapor that comes out of Mafiasoft rear end.
17 posted on
05/21/2006 7:18:58 PM PDT by
observer5
("Better violate the rights of a few, than of all!)
To: El Gran Salseron; bitt
19 posted on
05/21/2006 7:26:30 PM PDT by
potlatch
(Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
To: gondramB
I've always looked at IMs as a portal for bad crap since it requires no action by the end user - which is why I refuse to use it and delete messengers from bundled software.
Ironically, my employer uses it.
30 posted on
05/21/2006 8:31:17 PM PDT by
Tall_Texan
(I wish a political party would come along that thinks like I do.)
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