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Re: IMLogic telling porkies about Yahoo
From: "Mary Landesman" <mlande () bellsouth net>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 13:09:29 -0400
I can't speak to the IMLogic figures, but these are a few Yahoo IM worms of which I am aware. Guap.a Gunsan Lile.a Oscabot.k StarGames Velkbot.a Yimp.a All but one of these (Gunsan) was reported by antivirus vendors after April 2005. According to the data I've collected, MSN Messenger users (in large part because of Kelvir) appear to be the most frequent targets of all Instant Messenger threats, with 319 IM worms (that I know of) to contend with. AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) users come in a distant second with 64 IM worms (that I know of) targeting them. Both ICQ and Yahoo! Messenger take third place with only 7 IM worms (that I know of) each targeting those chat clients. It's probably a better idea to do the research yourself rather than relying on figures from the client vendors (or even from me, for that matter). This is all information that is available in various antivirus vendor encyclopedias; it just requires jumping through search hoops rather than jumping to conclusions. -- Mary ----- Original Message ----- From: "n3td3v" <xploitable () gmail com> To: <full-disclosure () lists grok org uk> Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 12:28 PM Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] IMLogic telling porkies about Yahoo On 10/14/05, James Tucker <jftucker () gmail com> wrote:
Sorry for the extremety of my blunt response, but I have two things to
say:
1. How the fuck do YOU know any more than they do? Just because you obsess over the security factors around a company with which you have no affiliation does not put you in any greater authority to make statements like those you made there.
I heard it from the horses mouth. Yahoo don't acknowledge the same stats that IMLogic report on, and Yahoo say IMLogic's findings don't match that of Yahoo's own stats of their network. IMLogic can report on something and claim a worm is attacking, but when Yahoo's people go and look at their network, nothing is actually taking place! How many malicious messages do IMLogic record, before they decide theres a wide spread attack? Thats my question, because even with reports of worms on Yahoo, none have been seen by Yahoo or users.. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
Current thread:
- IMLogic telling porkies about Yahoo n3td3v (Oct 14)
- Re: IMLogic telling porkies about Yahoo James Tucker (Oct 14)
- Re: IMLogic telling porkies about Yahoo Native.Code (Oct 14)
- Re: IMLogic telling porkies about Yahoo n3td3v (Oct 14)
- Re: IMLogic telling porkies about Yahoo Mary Landesman (Oct 14)
- Re: IMLogic telling porkies about Yahoo n3td3v (Oct 14)
- Re: IMLogic telling porkies about Yahoo Mary Landesman (Oct 14)
- Re: IMLogic telling porkies about Yahoo James Tucker (Oct 14)
- Re: IMLogic telling porkies about Yahoo n3td3v (Oct 14)
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- Re: IMLogic telling porkies about Yahoo Fergie (Paul Ferguson) (Oct 14)