{"id":118,"date":"2005-07-25T22:54:38","date_gmt":"2005-07-25T15:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=118"},"modified":"2005-07-25T22:56:21","modified_gmt":"2005-07-25T15:56:21","slug":"spy-worm-spreads-over-instant-messaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/computer\/spy-worm-spreads-over-instant-messaging\/","title":{"rendered":"Spy worm spreads over instant messaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kirvo Trojan targets MSN Messenger and AOL IM\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft&#8217;s MSN Messenger and AOL&#8217;s Instant Messenger services are being targeted by malicious messages containing links that could infect a computer with a Trojan horse or dangerous worm.<\/p>\n<p>The latest threat is a Trojan called Kirvo, which arrives in the form of an instant message from someone on the user&#8217;s &#8220;friends&#8221; list. The message contains a link to a website which, if clicked on, loads a copy of Kirvo onto the computer, according to an advisory from security company Symantec.<\/p>\n<p>Kirvo is pre-programmed to then fetch a copy of Spybot, a dangerous worm that can take advantage of software vulnerabilities to spy on the user.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/software.silicon.com\/malware\/0,3800003100,39150661,00.htm\">click here<\/a> for more info<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s MSN Messenger and AOL&#8217;s Instant Messenger services are being targeted by malicious messages containing links that could infect a computer with a Trojan horse or dangerous worm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}