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Apologies for the recent YM bot fiasco

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.

9 Responses

  1. Avatar for a.j. a.j. says:

    ang husay talaga ni master yuga!!!

    muzta?!!

    -a.j.

  2. Avatar for Abe Olandres Abe Olandres says:

    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.

  3. Avatar for Crawdaddy4x4PH Crawdaddy4x4PH says:

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

    You’re clean now?

  4. Avatar for Ross Ross says:

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

    Hey Arbet look at Fleeb message!

  5. Avatar for jami jami says:

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

  6. Avatar for Arbet Arbet says:

    Thanks, Mr. Fleeb.

  7. Avatar for Fleeb Fleeb says:

    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.

  8. Avatar for Arbet Arbet says:

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

  9. Avatar for Fleeb Fleeb says:

    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?

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