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New Yahoo Messenger Hijacker Trojan - An Indepth Explanation And Solution

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by -Abhishek-, Oct 9, 2006.

  1. dayajotkaur

    dayajotkaur Peon

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    #21
    haanji...though i'd post more info on this thing for hose who need it....chalo hope it heps..(from a person on yahoo questions)


    today system attacked by a virus coolpics.com. it is in temp folder n is not deleting. pl tel how 2 del it.?

    it was attacked when i clicked the link in yahoo messenger. though i login as invisible, after a while its been available to all and the unnecessar links cropping up relating to the "coolpics" site. it is stored in temp folder as "object1" n "object2" application format.

    as the operations goes on inessage displays as "component MSINET.OCX or one of its dependencies not correctly registered a file is missing or invalid"
    Additional Details

    2 days ago
    in the name of other members of my yahoo messenger it is been displaying the following things.

    Do you realize who is in this image:thecoolpicsdot com/ who.jpg . Just think for a moment and tell me soon

    this was generated automatically. such more messeges were displaying, making inconveniance to send messages to members.

    2 days ago
    gunayate: oh my god , i've won a 20000 usd lottery the cool picsdot com/mylottery.jpg... <<
    its the another message. n this site is sticked as default in internet browser n making disable to all options to make another one as default link.
     
    dayajotkaur, Oct 25, 2006 IP
  2. -Abhishek-

    -Abhishek- Regaining my Momentum!

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    #22
    dayajotkaur,

    It looks like the similar stuff! Take a look at the post I did ....it might help you!

    Lol Someone greyed me with "you are gay" hehe
     
    -Abhishek-, Oct 28, 2006 IP
  3. dayajotkaur

    dayajotkaur Peon

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    #23
    haanji yaar,

    yeah abhishek, that's why i posted it. in case soemone else browsing here got that message and didn't connect it to the others. because i think you're right, so im hoping this would help them. :eek: i've been referring my friends to your post because they have no idea what's going on. i too had this virus, but i have mozilla, so i'm kosher lol

    chalo!
     
    dayajotkaur, Oct 30, 2006 IP
  4. ameyjah

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    #24
    Hey ypur article saved me from getting infected and what about yahoo, what precautions are they taking to stop this:)
     
    ameyjah, Nov 8, 2006 IP
  5. dayajotkaur

    dayajotkaur Peon

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    #25
    glad if i could help! i truly have no ideas what they're doing yet, as friends are still getting this thing. it may take a while for them to deal with it. hopefully not *too* long
     
    dayajotkaur, Nov 8, 2006 IP
  6. -Abhishek-

    -Abhishek- Regaining my Momentum!

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    #26
    Lol dayajotkaur, I think he was referring to my article!

    This trojan has been listed in symantec! And since Yahoo messenger is a standalone program, and it is the windows IM functions that has been attacked, I doubt Yahoo can do much!

    The most they could do is release an upgrade or a patch, but then it would conflict with other services. And I doubt many would bother to download it!

    Abhishek
     
    -Abhishek-, Nov 8, 2006 IP
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    You have given me good info, thanx. I have warned all of my frnd on behalf of you:)
     
    ameyjah, Nov 8, 2006 IP
  8. dayajotkaur

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    #28
    oops sorry abhishek! lol......guess we gotta put who we r referring to here! lol!
     
    dayajotkaur, Nov 11, 2006 IP