Classic British Flight Sim

Just received through MSN Messenger. Please be advised. Thankfully, NOD32 picked up on it.

I don't get it?

Should you be foolish enough to click on the link (and not have an anti-virus running), then a file called ive1ze5y.pif installs itself.

Its a Win32/MSNMaker Trojan, and info can be found here.

Information regarding removal can be found here.

Cheers

Those IM programs, like Messenger, Yahoo IM etc are an absolute security nightmare; it's like installing a cat flap in your firewall, things can get in and out that easily. I know of at least one major company who had absolutely airtight IT security policies in every other respect, but quite happily let their employees use these for communication (ostensibly for use only with global partners, like anybody cared) - the subsequent clean up, after the Trojans, was apparently quite costly!

AndyG