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Saturday, November 03, 2007

This Skype Worm is pretty distasteful....

....not that worms ever have taste, but whatever.

You can't move for stories in the news regarding Madeleine McCann at the moment, so it's not really much of a surprise that bad guys have seemingly tapped into that sense of panic by pushing out a Skype Worm variant that sends you the following message:

"Help me find this girl!"

...and, of course, it links to a fake photo file that's actually an executable. The payload is pretty nasty, too. More here at Spywareguide.

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