Hi everyone, there appears to be a new MSN Worm or Virus on the loose. I’ve been getting some wierd messages from trusted contacts since yesterday and decided to investigate a little. The messages are usually something like:

“loooooooooooool” or “looooook” or “He looks really funny in that photo” something similar, followed by the contact trying to send a file called “N039_jpg.zip” (names could vary). The propagation seems to work by people opening the file…which probably installs some code into the system registry and computer – the infected computer then starts sending these messages to others.

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Recommend everyone not to accept any files, even from trusted contacts, if they look fishy or unsolicited. There is a good possibility that these files contain the “Backdoor.Win32.IRCBot.aex” worm – do not accept these files / pictures/ downloads and open them! Doesn’t seem to be too widespread yet, since there is not so much data online – a few forums have mentions though: Telecharger | Chinese Internet Security Response Team | MSE Forum

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4 Responses to “New MSN Virus / Worm going around – Backdoor.Win32.IRCBot.aex – File based N039_jpg.zip / loooooooooooool”

  1. 1 Svem

    It is also spreading in Dutch… I got it. I guess it adapts to the language of the victim’s system. It’s saved as N039_jpg.zip, which contains the file http://www.N039_jpg-msn. I guess this worm is meant to overload the MSN Network…

  2. 2 Cagri

    Guys how do you get rid of this virus i cant do it?

    can someone please help

  3. 3 vAs

    I have this problem and i don’t know how to defeat it. i am in greece and the most sites which talk about this are in french. If someone can help me I would appreciate that… :)

  4. 4 ChRlIE

    Go to the msn website and then get the msn anti-virus
    or scan your computer with your firwall proxy settings tehn once they have been detected delete them.this works if you have a storing anti-viruss sytem