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    Another Skype Worm Unleashed

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    Lisa Vaas
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    April 16, 2007
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      Another Skype worm has been released that spreads by sending a malware link to online friends in Skype users’ contact lists. Before sending a message containing the malware link, the Trojan sets the infected user’s status to Do Not Disturb and, as a side effect, silences call or message alerts. F-Secure has a screenshot of that warning message here.

      Once a user has clicked on the malware link and downloaded and executed the file, a picture of a scantily clad woman pops up. F-Secure has a screenshot of that at the same location as the screenshot of the warning message, but it’s a fuzzy rendition.

      F-Secure is speculating that the worm’s motive is to promote the following list of sites, all of which read like a promotional message for tourism in Africa and supposedly sponsored by the “ThinkQuest team:”

      http://aras.lookingat.us/index.htm http://asilas.my-php.net/index.html http://bobodada.3-hosting.net/index.html http://bobos45.bebto.com/index.html http://gogo442.hatesit.com/index.html http://jackdaniels.110mb.com/index.html http://timboss.1majorhost.com/index.html http://zozole.php0h.com/index.html

      This site, which F-Secure hypothesizes may be an infected-user counter or a means of quantifying the malware writer’s profit, is also visited: http://aras.allfreehost.net/cal[REMOVED]nt.php “Who knows, malware nowadays are mostly driven and motivated financially,” according to F-Secure’s posting.

      Other recent malware to hitch a ride on the free Skype VOIP service has included a Trojan named Warezov or Stration that used contact lists to spread to users’ friends, family and colleagues in late March.

      The incidents are proof that researchers have been right when they’ve grumbled about Skype as a security risk, which they’ve been doing for some time. In June 2006, security firm Bit9 included Skype on a list of widely used applications that escape enterprise IT notice yet which, if left unpatched, make the programs a bigger threat to enterprise networks than malicious software.

      Lisa Vaas
      Lisa Vaas is News Editor/Operations for eWEEK.com and also serves as editor of the Database topic center. Since 1995, she has also been a Webcast news show anchorperson and a reporter covering the IT industry. She has focused on customer relationship management technology, IT salaries and careers, effects of the H1-B visa on the technology workforce, wireless technology, security, and, most recently, databases and the technologies that touch upon them. Her articles have appeared in eWEEK's print edition, on eWEEK.com, and in the startup IT magazine PC Connection. Prior to becoming a journalist, Vaas experienced an array of eye-opening careers, including driving a cab in Boston, photographing cranky babies in shopping malls, selling cameras, typography and computer training. She stopped a hair short of finishing an M.A. in English at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. She earned a B.S. in Communications from Emerson College. She runs two open-mic reading series in Boston and currently keeps bees in her home in Mashpee, Mass.

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