Use instant messaging? Value your computer? Real life = teh win. A study released today by instant messaging security vendor IMlogic reported that hackers and virus writers are recognizing and exploiting the opportunities presented by IM-based attacks, the numbers of which have risen sharply over the last two quarters. The number of IM attacks such as viruses, worms, and phishing scams has increased from 20 for all of 2004 to 571 in the second quarter of 2005 alone, representing an increased threat to both enterprise users and the average consumer, the study said. Linkage
true, but IMing as a whole is a waste of time I still blame stupidity for every software problem ever. Either an idiotic coder doing a crap job, or an idiotic user not knowing crap about how to use a computer. "ipromiseimnotgoingtostealyourbankaccountinfo.exe" well, if it's a promise... you know... that kinda intelligent work.
^I agree: Oh, I've just had an email from someone I've never met who "Need your an advice in information"! I'll just have a look at this data.exe file they've sent me.
what gets me is how i've now got to turn on acepting exe files in msnmsnger in the registry. Grrr *shakes fist*. But it was quite fast of ms to re-act, in MSN, type, "i really hate animus.pif" and the msg won't get sent. That happened after they spotted a pattern in traffic apparently. Now users are protected from been soo bloody stupid (but they still all run as admin....... like i am right now!)
Yea someone sent me a .pif from MSN and i downloaded it, tryed to run it and it did nothing. A week later Norton told me it was a virus. But because i was using trillian, i was never infected.
