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Title: IM Worm Could Be Nasty
Post by: iago on June 22, 2004, 12:27 PM
http://www.internetweek.com/breakingNews/showArticle.jhtml%3Bjsessionid=YKE02ZGNN21GKQSNDBCSKHY?articleID=22101033

If that happened, it could be nasssty.
Title: Re:IM Worm Could Be Nasty
Post by: j0k3r on June 22, 2004, 01:20 PM
Quote"The likelihood of that happening is low. If millions of messages were sent out in a short span of time, the IM servers would probably go down before the threat spread completely," said Chien.
Title: Re:IM Worm Could Be Nasty
Post by: hismajesty on June 22, 2004, 01:57 PM
I was in best buy today and saw an IM firewall, intresting.
Title: Re:IM Worm Could Be Nasty
Post by: Falcon[anti-yL] on June 22, 2004, 02:24 PM
Yea an IM worm would be pretty bad.
Title: Re:IM Worm Could Be Nasty
Post by: j0k3r on June 22, 2004, 03:11 PM
Quote from: hismajesty[yL] on June 22, 2004, 01:57 PM
I was in best buy today and saw an IM firewall, intresting.
Probably more trouble than it's worth, and probably doesn't do much more than a regular router/firewall.
Title: Re:IM Worm Could Be Nasty
Post by: hismajesty on June 22, 2004, 03:46 PM
Quote from: j0k3r on June 22, 2004, 03:11 PM
Quote from: hismajesty[yL] on June 22, 2004, 01:57 PM
I was in best buy today and saw an IM firewall, intresting.
Probably more trouble than it's worth, and probably doesn't do much more than a regular router/firewall.

Just another way for Symantac to make money.
Title: Re:IM Worm Could Be Nasty
Post by: Newby on June 22, 2004, 07:40 PM
Quote from: hismajesty[yL] on June 22, 2004, 03:46 PM
Quote from: j0k3r on June 22, 2004, 03:11 PM
Quote from: hismajesty[yL] on June 22, 2004, 01:57 PM
I was in best buy today and saw an IM firewall, intresting.
Probably more trouble than it's worth, and probably doesn't do much more than a regular router/firewall.

Just another way for Symantac to make money.
Symantec owns Trust. :D
Title: Re:IM Worm Could Be Nasty
Post by: muert0 on June 22, 2004, 07:55 PM
Here's a worm for MSN:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.jitux.worm.html
And a worm for cell phones. weeee:
http://www.enterpriseitplanet.com/security/news/article.php/3369361