irc virus?

[mooo]

i dunno if anyone has been see'n this past day or so.. but a lot of friends have been posting
[01:26] <*****> http://people.freenet.de/nathalie/me.jpg !!! Lol
not sure if its like those other viruses that were floating around or what ever, just kinda afraid to go to it when someone post it then *poof* 3 others do.. and then it happens in another channel.

 

[Henyman]

ehhh??? what you trying to say? it's jsut a random crappy page?

 

[Lee]

The access to this side was refused...

Translation Mr Mooo

It will determine a forbidden access.
Click on back in the browser strip in order to try another Link.
You/they use as lived the menu strip for the Weitersurfen...

Much fun for the Weitersurfen

 

[Lee]

I think you're getting a spam message only from ''Weitersurfen'' a national newspaper.

 

[Enyo]

The link you posted has been taken down by the provider, luckily for any forum member that clicked it in a insecure IE installation as it silently drops a trojan (unless your AV steps in first).

A few worms do this now, using the infected system to spam the message in channel and to users on join.

Fagot was the first i remember doing this:

http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/fagot.shtml

You should of course not click any link that comes from someone you don't know on IRC. Report the source to a channel OP so that the user can be removed.