New AIM Hijacker

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September 23, 2004 at 8:36 pm #2253

jaycross
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— NEW AIM HIJACKER —

My apologies if any of you have already encountered and/or posted about this one, but I’ve recently come across another AIM hijacker, this time one that hijacks a user’s away message by inserting a hyperlink that leads to a blank HTML document with a file download that installs the same software on their PC. The user’s away message will typically read “WTF?! http://www.transusacorp.com/bestfriends.scr”. If you download the application that the website prompts you to download, its properties label it as a 32KB screensaver. This, of course, is not true. Below, I’ve included the WHOIS lookup from the website in question.

Domain Name: TRANSUSACORP.COM

Administrative Contact :
Hooper, Jay Ho
(36064480P)
jayho@arcic.com
911 S. Bixby Drive
City of Industry, CA 91745
US
Phone: 626-445-2560

September 23, 2004 at 9:31 pm #37722

bigcfk
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this is old. but thanks for the extra info.

September 23, 2004 at 9:47 pm #37723

jaycross
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Yeah I figured that it may have been around for a while since I’d never heard a whole lot about it, but a couple of my friends told me that they’d been infected so I figured I’d post what I could up here. Sorry for the false alarm!

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