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I recently received a suspicious Gmail chat message from a friend (shown below). I was immediately suspicious about the message because this friend has never used chat to talk with me previously, and also he appeared to be offline and the content of the message was similar to messages that other instant messaging worms use. I expected that when I clicked on the link I would be asked to download an executable thinly disguised as a photo (for example, coolpic.jpg.exe) like W32.Scrimge.E or that some drive-by exploits would be used on the page such as the ones Koobface uses. Instead I was brought to the following page that asked me to log in to my choice of MSN, Yahoo, Gtalk, or AIM accounts to view the “private album.” ...

Don’t go there. There are a lot of rogue downloaders hiding in those links. Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz, speaking at the UBS Media and Communications Conference in New York, said the Tiger Woods sex scandal was a better traffic generator than the death of Michael Jackson, according to the ZDNet blog.