{"id":162,"date":"2007-09-12T06:48:26","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T11:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ironwil.net\/blog\/2007\/09\/12\/hello-infection-skype-worm-infecting-winbox-users\/"},"modified":"2007-09-12T06:48:26","modified_gmt":"2007-09-12T11:48:26","slug":"hello-infection-skype-worm-infecting-winbox-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/2007\/09\/hello-infection-skype-worm-infecting-winbox-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Infection? Skype worm infecting WinBox users!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two days ago PC World published an article about Ramex.a, a worm that has been rampaging through Skype\/WinBox users and giving them a nasty infection. Linux and Mac users are unaffected by this worm. From what researchers can tell, this worm provides a realistic chat message with a link that leads to code execution, bot installation, changing of some critical system files, which in turn makes ones computer a bot without any way to get critical software updates.<\/p>\n<p>This means that if a person gets infected they will have to manually remove and change things. The article has links on how to disinfect your system. You can find the original article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/id,137032-c,webtelephonyconferencing\/article.html\" title=\"Skype Warns Users about Circulating Worm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>iron wil<\/p>\n<p>Note:<\/p>\n<p>No, I did not write this line,&#8221;Linux and Mac users are unaffected by this worm,&#8221; with a smug look on my face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two days ago PC World published an article about Ramex.a, a worm that has been rampaging through Skype\/WinBox users and giving them a nasty infection. Linux and Mac users are unaffected by this worm. From what researchers can tell, this worm provides a realistic chat message with a link that leads to code execution, bot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[187,179,177,183,188,170],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-nix","tag-anti-virus","tag-microsoft","tag-news","tag-os-x","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}