Yahoo Messenger vulnerability
I got a message from my friend on yahoo messenger containing the following ftp url of an exe file ftp://tlpoeil:yahoogoogle@ftp.members.lycos.co.uk/selfextract.exe
Please beware about downloading that exe file as it could be malicious.
Someone can disassemble it and find out whats in it
jun 17 2008:
As i am getting lot of hits for this topic, and i myself got such links from my yahoo network friends.
I guess the vulnerability in yahoo messenger has not been fixed.
This vulnerability of yahoo messenger could be exploited, so beware of exe spreading across yahoo messenger that is sent without the knowledge of the person from whom you got it. It could be malicious.
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Dinesh Uthayakumar
Passionate to Rock in the world of Computers !!
–Personal–I love friends and i respect friendship to a great extend. In a group of friends i try to steal the show and bring a lot of sense of humour.I like technical people more
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Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology. I love Computers.”Play with Digital Information” is my style.Since IT & Computers are an Occean, I will try to survive n swim as far as possible.I would like to R&D on Linux.I am an Open Source supporter, because one can learn computer science only that way !
can u tell me what is the file about and iam not able to download that file…….
Nothing in that url. the folder is empty, dont wast your time on the below url
ftp://tlpoeil:yahoogoogle@ftp.members.lycos.co.uk/selfextract.exe
My thought is “what if tomorrow a malicious exe’s link spreads on yahoo messenger network ?”
There must be some flaw in yahoo messenger as the user doesnt know such things are being sent from his id !
making yahoo users vulnerable
WHY SUH A DECEIVE ftp://tlpoeil:yahoogoogle@ftp.members.lycos.co.uk/selfextract.exe
dooes not exist why should one have to waste time on such
ok well this is weird really
i dont understand what’s the importance of it. really!!!!!
@ eilsel
Never click on hyperlinks received from your friends on yahoo network, which was sent without your friend’s knowledge
Nfs carbon download ftp://tlpoeil:yahoogoogle@ftp.members.lycos.co.uk/selfextract.exe i have also same problem in my yahoo massenger .this link automatically send to my all yhaoo messenger friends.i think this is virus? plz help me
@above
Dont click on any such EXE they could be harmful, unless you download EXE’s from trusted site or if you are sure that such EXE’s are trusted.
pls how do i solve the self extract problem
Simple, dont click on any such links.
hey guys,
The only way to get rid of this, plz get into linux:
For windows users:
better to clean your web browser cache and reinstall your yahoo messenger.