AOL Suspends Trojan-Infected AIM Accounts
Ryan Naraine writes over on eWeek:
America Online on Tuesday confirmed the inadvertent suspension of an undisclosed number of Trojan-infected AIM screen names.
The company said its internal anti-SPIM (spam over IM) mechanism flagged the infected screen names for terms-of-service abuse and led to the account cancellations.
The suspension is directly related to the virulent "Oscarbot" Trojan Horse that targets AOL's Instant Messenger users and propagates by sending IMs to every buddy on an infected user's buddy list.
America Online Inc.'s behavior-pattern tracking system noticed the unusual surge in IM activity and unintentionally flagged the infected users as potential IM spammers.
posted by Fergie @ 5/24/2005 06:27:00 PM
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