Viruses for instant messaging increase
Hackers have developed worms capable of attacking all major instant messenger systems, it has been revealed.
According to anti-virus company Kaspersky Lab worms are being developed that can spread via multiple IM networks, rather than just attacked one system.
Kaspersky said IM worms such as IRCBot.lo, discovered in January, will become the greatest IM threat, as they can spread to a large number of networks and can use variable messages and download links.
Roel Schouwenberg, senior research engineer at Kaspersky Lab. Said the worrying thing about IM worms like IRCBot.lo is the code that is used to write them can be easily copied, potentially resulting in a significant increase in IRCBots which can spread links across all major IM networks.
