Word: worm
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Many lovers of Google Talk—a commonly used instant messaging client and procrastination method for students—received an unwelcome surprise yesterday as they were bombarded with messages propagated by an internet worm. The messages directed users to ViddyHo.com—which asked visitors to provide login information for their Google Talk accounts—through a TinyURL.com link. The worm then used that information to send replicas of the message to contacts listed on the newly-infected user’s Google Talk account. ViddyHo.com has been linked to Hoan Ton-That of San Francisco...
...Crimson investigation has connected ViddyHo.com—the site responsible for an instant messaging worm that spread Tuesday—to an online account belonging to San Francisco man Hoan Ton-That...
...worm struck many Harvard students who received messages on Google Talk, Google’s instant messaging client, directing them to click on a link that led via TinyURL.com to ViddyHo.com...
...Gharakhanian said he was aware of the ViddyHo.com worm because of a post on the tech gossip blog ValleyWag but said that, to his knowledge, Ton-That was not involved...
...ViddyHo.com asked visitors to log into their Google Talk accounts. The site used the log-in information to propagate the worm by sending replicas of the original message to the users’ contact lists. The account information may have been stored and used to access accounts by the owner of ViddyHo.com...