hackfix-virusnews: Worms Crawl Toward Instant Messaging (interesting articles)
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- Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 08:01:18 -0400
Worms Crawl Toward Instant Messaging
IM users should become more security-conscious as IM
spreads across devices and invites viruses.
Frank Thorsberg, special to PCWorld.com
Tuesday, May 28, 2002
Instant messaging applications make it easy to chat
in real-time with friends and coworkers, or even to
meet new people online. Without proper protection,
however, IM users make tempting targets for hackers
intent on stealing personal information or corrupting
PCs for evil purposes.
Security experts say the potential threat is real and
growing every day with the skyrocketing use of IM
programs from America Online, Microsoft, and Yahoo.
As of April, those vendors served a combined total of
more than 111 million unique home users in the United
States, says Jupiter Media Metrix. That's up from a
combined total of 98.6 million unique U.S. users last
October.
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