Apologies for the recent YM bot fiasco

Abe Olandres December 12, 2005 · 1 min read

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The first thing I remembered last Saturday was a client texting me asking why I was sending him some sort of a messange from Yahoo! Messenger. I shrugged it off and texted back saying I was away the whole day and didn’t have time to be online, much more leave him a message over YM.

The message was something like this:

“Shit this bitch is hot check this shit out http://simple-host.getmyip.com/login.php”

The next thing I know, dozens and dozens of YM contacts are leaving offline messages asking why I sent them some weird link! Ack, could it be a YM bot virus or something?

I wasn’t online the time this happened and nobody else was using my PC so how was that possible? I have Avast anti-virus on all the time and it’s being updated real-time. I also do weekly spyware checks using Ad-Aware and Spybot.

What else did I miss? How could that have happened? Dang.

Sorry to all those 300 contacts on my YM!

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

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18 Comments

a.j. · 20 years ago

ang husay talaga ni master yuga!!!

muzta?!!

-a.j.

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief · 20 years ago

Frankly, I am not even sure what exactly it is. I did updates, virus scans with no results. I also used Trend Micro’s HouseCall online scanning to no avail.

When that happened I was away from my PC. It is possible that someone must have snooped my YM login or something but why it didn’t change my password, I don’t know.

Really weird and until now, I haven’t identified the culprit.

Crawdaddy4x4PH · 20 years ago

Hahaha yeah… I knew you were infected when I got the message so I just let it be.

You’re clean now?

Ross · 20 years ago

It’s alright…natatawa nga ako eh..harharhar.

Hey Arbet look at Fleeb message!

jami · 20 years ago

hmm, didn’t get that message. nothing to do with me using gaim tho ^_^

Arbet · 20 years ago

Thanks, Mr. Fleeb.

Fleeb · 20 years ago

This was the message:

” shit this bitch is hot check this shit out http://simple-host.getmyip.com/login.php ”

The link leads to the phishing site.

Arbet · 20 years ago

Sir, do you have a sample of the message and/or link?

Fleeb · 20 years ago

I received that to. It was a link to a phishing site disguised as a Yahoo! Mail login screen. I don’t have any clues how it was done… somebody got your password?