New Yahoo Messenger Hijacker Trojan - An Indepth Explanation And Solution

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,

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

 

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. 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!

 

Hey ypur article saved me from getting infected and what about yahoo, what precautions are they taking to stop this

 

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

 

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

 

You have given me good info, thanx. I have warned all of my frnd on behalf of you

 

oops sorry abhishek! lol......guess we gotta put who we r referring to here! lol!