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Everyone's aflutter with the launch of Google's IM service but lest we forget,
there are other players in this peculiar little game. Microsoft has had its own
instant messaging service for quite some time. Something new crawled into the
Microsoft instant messenger too, something vile and unclean and it uses your own
language against you.
 This
ugly little burrower known as Kelvir.HI is a variant on the Kelvir that reared
its ugly little head back in February. This little bugger added some nice little
chutzpah though. This one actually checks your configurations to determine the
language being used and then send you a nice little message in your own language.
"haha I found your picture!" is the key phrase and a link goes with it. You click
on the link and then lots of nasty things happen.
The Symantec advisory says this little worm affects systems running pretty much
everything from Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows NT,
Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP.
It shows the vile people developing these vile programs are getting more clever
with their development and according to C|Net, it's only going to get worse. In
talking to David Jaros of Akonix Systems, C|Net quoted him saying "They go after
not only English speakers, but also other languages. I think we will definitely
see more worms that cast a wider net."
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In some ways, this isn't anything new. It just means users of MSN's instant messaging
service have to be more careful of what they do as more and more worms and other
maliciousness works its way into people's computers.
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