Comments on: IM worm installs 'safe' Web browser

New worm installs a rogue Web browser and hijacks the Internet Explorer home page on infected PCs.

[Roman12]

IM Worm

It should be very effective if it does in fact sends it self to the victim?s contacts, average computer users know little about worms and spyware. Another good example which demonstrates the need for reliable anti-spyware software and making people aware. As well as discontinue using the old IE and switching to Firefox.
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[Gasaraki]

???

How is Firefox going to prevent this? Firefox is not going to solve every virus problem known to mankind. The fact that the computer warns you that you are downloading someting and it might be dangerous is good enough. You can't prevent stupid people from doing stupid stuff. You can either block and deactivate things without people knowing or asking the user if its ok to do this. If they say "yes, please download this virus." Then there is nothing anyone can do.

[nonicks]

This IM warm was discovered in India and not calif.

Just Correcting the Data.

[pentium4forever]

Temporary cure

For cryin' out loud, people need to get off of IE and start using FF or Opera. It won't solve every problem no, but should be a temporary shield.

[twagnerma]

Reading the article might help...

The worm isn't installed through Internet Explorer, IE does not have an IM component. So switching to Firefox will do absolutely nothing to prevent infection with this worm. Duh...

[CaptDave86]

simple final fix

a simple fix for all non-link based IM viruses is to ditch the client from Yahoo/AIM/MSN and get Trillian. its that simple. now you cant prevent stupidity like everyone was saying, where someone will click on the link. but what are you going to do? Ill admit it, i had clicked on a link, where the text before it stated: "how is this for a Myspace profile picture? and a link after it, that was stated as a jpg file, whne i clicked on it, IE tryed to DL a DAT file, well nothing on my computer defaults to open a DAT. so i got a little curious and wanted to open it up in notepad to see if it was a compiled DAT or a scripted DAT, and unfortunatly it was compiled and i couldnt see and of the code. i dont have a decompiler so i couldnt figure out how it worked.
But still, Trillian is the best approtch to getting rid of the nasty IM infested non-link viruses. i have been useing it for the last 6-7 years and never, ever have gotten infected with a IM based virus from it.