Skype users warned against new IM worm

Fans of peer-to-peer Internet telephone system Skype have this been seen the unwanted appearance of a new computer worm attack that rears its ugly head in the form of a seemingly innocuous instant-messaging chat invitation.


It's the new way of doing business.
You run a phone company ? some upstart giving away free telephone service to pull your customers from you ?
Hire someone to write a virus.

Oh don't tell the staff of course, they'll blab to the nearest newspaper. But pull a half million out of the company in "bonus's" , no one asks what you do with your personal dough, hire a few people from the dark side of the internet under a fake name , and voila ! Your competition takes a publicity hit from being hit with a virus and hey , our equipment isn't subject to that !

It's the new business model. The new form of industrial sabatage. And it's so easy to do. Only one , maybe two people in the whole company have to know, there's no paper trail because it's his "personal" funds, and he is more than repaid when the stock goes up after the competition takes a hit.

It's like ... you're a CEO , and you know if you step down your stock price will go way up , so you quietly buy as much stock as you can , and then step down , and then sell it all the next day when the price shoots up ...

Business is a dirty dirty thing , and the internet isjust the latest opportunity for them.