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IM Worm Installs Own Browser: The Safety Browser

Posted by radgravity Promoted 1140 days 21 hours ago 666 views

Technology / Security | 10 comments |

Stumble it!

A new IM hijack that installs its own browser called the "Safety Browser" has been discovered. It changes your homepage, loops music on your desktop every time you boot up and spams the infection link via IM and IRC. Oh, and popups are enabled by default...

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dooomsayer, on 5/20/2006 10:11:21 PM
Total Posts: 120, Joined: 3/23/2006

hmm................ok

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jdbond, on 5/21/2006 12:11:55 AM
Total Posts: 203, Joined: 2/2/2006

bloody hell...some people have too much time to waste (excluding the folks on shoutwire..)

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RabidHounddog11, on 5/21/2006 12:22:36 AM
Total Posts: 115, Joined: 3/21/2006

yea, its called going outside, or at least doing productive things like sleeping and watching TV.

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StabbedMF, on 5/21/2006 12:30:10 AM
Total Posts: 75, Joined: 3/22/2006

crafty bastards

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Pajewjew, on 5/21/2006 12:31:51 AM
Total Posts: 11, Joined: 1/2/2006

Haha, that's funny.

Sounds more lighthearted than malicious. I'd be laughing all the way to the Geek Squad if I got it.

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h0ser, on 5/21/2006 1:15:55 AM
Total Posts: 6, Joined: 5/7/2006

yea and everytime one of those popups comes up the dude gets 3 cents or something. Hes probably rich by now lol

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Ragarnok, on 5/21/2006 2:35:15 AM
Total Posts: 29, Joined: 11/13/2005

OMG M$ ought to take action against this kind of Windows-Rape hacks

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IcedEarth, on 5/21/2006 3:06:37 AM
Total Posts: 177, Joined: 12/12/2005

What do they benefit by doing shit like this.

Besides only idiots and nerds with too much time use IRC so i won't be gettin it anytime soon

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kyanox, on 5/22/2006 12:48:15 AM
Total Posts: 351, Joined: 12/20/2005

icedearth:

I wasn't going to say anything, but since you brought it up. The article mentions yahoo IM, if you have it you'll get it.

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shdwsclan, on 5/22/2006 9:32:54 AM
Total Posts: 557, Joined: 1/27/2006

They are trying to root out the dumbasses using IRC.
A bunch of creative IRC plugin hacks have been out for a very long time.

Most servers have rules setup against private messsaging.

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