Indeed, the worm works as a representative of the infected end-user. Said research head of mobile attacks Denis Maslennikov at Kaspersky Lab, in case a user downloaded and executed the snatch.exe file, the worm would continuously reproduce itself within the same environment.Īnd while the malware doesn't result in any direct damage to the victim's PC, there is a key danger in that he receives the malevolent executable from someone known to be reliable like a person from the user's own index of contacts. Moreover, it appears that the origin of the attack is Russia that's least surprising as ICQ is an extremely popular IM program there. The fake messages come differently worded, like "hello!" "No, look," "look" "well, a mini game-type" to name some of the instances. Thereafter, a request follows for a file transfer of the size 916.5 KB which is actually an executable named snatch.exe. In the meantime, the malware attack began on Augand since then has been spreading in the form of a message that supposedly arrives from a pal. Subsequently, it distributes its own copies to each of the addresses on that user's friends list. The virus, which propagates via the IM (Instant Messaging) service, when run, steals the password of the user thus enabling it to compromise the victim's IM application. States Kaspersky Lab that this worm is registered in its AV databases as, which reportedly is responsible for triggering the endemic on ICQ. Fresh ICQ Worm Contaminates Innumerable End-UsersĪccording to Softpedia which published news on August 17, 2010, a new PC virus is presently proliferating and contaminating people's computers that are running the 'Instant Messaging Program,' ICQ.
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