The new Bizex virus steals ICQ passwords

A new BizEx virus has appeared on the network, which caused the first global epidemic among users of the ICQ Internet pike.

The report of the Kaspersky Lab said that the virus brings the ICQ-message victim to the computer, in which it offers to visit the Jokeworld.biz hacker website. For masking, the user shows cartoons from the popular series "Joecartoon", and in the meantime, the Java Virus quietly penetrates the system. He, using a gap in ICQ, quietly sends a link to the above web site on behalf of the computer owner.

The warnings with which Pager users share with each other say that the virus is able to steal a password from the ICQ number. This threatens the loss of contacts and makes the use of a pager impossible. From the "Kaspersky Laboratory", no reports of the destructive properties of the virus have yet been received.

“Kaspersky Laboratory recommends users in the event of a link to the Jokeworld website immediately delete this message and in no case visit the specified site .

At the moment, laboratory experts continue to analyze the malicious program.

"Computer" notes that the worm, in all likelihood, is a danger only for users of some versions of the ICQ client. The opening of a dangerous link through the alternative client Miranda had no consequences except the launch of the Java virtual machine.