MSN Messenger Worm Making Rounds
A new worm targeting users of Microsoft's (Quote, Chart) MSN Messenger network is making the rounds and anti-virus vendors are warning that the threat level and distribution remains high.
The Jitux.A (W32/Jitux.A.worm) was detected squirming through the text chat application and trying to get users to download malicious code. The worm comes in the form on a URL which downloads the "jituxramon.exe" file.
According to an alert from Panda Software, when a user runs the file, the worm sends new messages containing the link every five minutes to all contacts stored in MSN Messenger.
