Might check your AV protection and watch those teenagers that like to
instant message.

The Spybot worm is particularly damaging, Secunia warned. It seeks out
Windows identity keys and certain application activation codes and
feeds the information to the sender via Internet Relay Chat (IRC). The
Bropia worm arrives in a file about 184 KB in size. It affects Windows
95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 and XP.

Danish security  watchdog Secunia has issued a "medium" alert over the
newly discovered Bropia worm, warning that it is spreading fast via
MSN Messenger.

The malicious code, which arrives as a .pif file, acts as a carrier
dropping a variant of the Spybot worm onto compromised PCs . This then
acts as a Trojan and tries to harvest passwords from the computer
before sending itself out again via Messenger.

Fooling Users
"Many corporations have been blocking the use of instant messaging
programs for employee productivity reasons, and may now have good
cause to do so for security reasons as well," said Joe Hartmann,
senior virus researcher at antivirus company Trend Micro (Nasdaq:
TMIC) .

"With the popularity of instant messaging, it may be the home users
who are most at risk. This kind of worm uses humor to make people
forget that they are being infected, and backdoors are being opened
into their systems."

Stealing Keys
The Spybot worm is particularly damaging, Secunia warned. It seeks out
Windows identity keys and certain application activation codes and
feeds the information to the sender via Internet Relay Chat (IRC).

The Bropia worm arrives in a file about 184 KB in size. It affects
Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 and XP.  

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