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Symantec reported that a worm targeting users of instant messaging software Yahoo Messenger on Windows. During the attack, the victim receives a message appear to come from one of his/her contacts and inviting them to click a link to download a photo. The malware, identified by experts is the W32.Yimfoca , analyzes the list of contacts from Yahoo! Messenger and continues to reproduce.

Of course when the victim clicks on this link, the default browser is launched and redirected to an executable file. Once again it trying to pass for a picture but advanced users will notice the extension. exe.

Once it is installed on the machine, the worm is divided and added to the green list of Windows Firewall. Then it disables the manager updates Windows Updates. The malware also infiltrated in the registry and changes the key below in order to be activated each time the computer starts.The malware arrives via instant message through Yahoo or Skype with any one of a number of messages, including “Does my new hair style look good? bad? perfect?” or “My printer is about to be thrown through a window if this pic won’t come out right. You see anything wrong with it?” Bkis wrote in a blog post.
The message includes a link to a Web page that looks like it leads to a JPEG, or image file. When the link is clicked on, the browser displays an interface that looks like the RapidShare Web hosting site and offers up a ZIP file for download. The extracted file is actually an executable file with a .com extension.
The malware, which Bkis has detected as “W32.Skyhoo.Worm,” disappears if the computer does not have Skype or Yahoo Messenger installed. It automatically sends messages with varying content and malicious links to contacts in the victim’s IM list and automatically injects a malicious link in e-mail messages and Word or Excel files that the user is composing, Bkis said.
The worm also connects to an IRC server to receive remote commands, blocks antivirus software, uses a rootkit technique to hide its files and processes and automatically copies itself onto USB drives to spread, according to Bkis.

Google has taken the rare step of asking a California judge to declare that by linking to copyright-infringing works on Rapidshare, the search giant is not facilitating the illegal distribution of copyrighted songs.Blue Destiny Records, a small blues-oriented music label, sued Google, Microsoft and Rapidshare in Florida. The label claimed that Rapidshare was running “a distribution center for unlawful copies of copyrighted works,” and that Google and Microsoft’s Bing search engine were helping to prop up the company. The label argued that users can easily find copyrighted songs on file-hosting websites by doing a simple search query.

But in late March, Blue Destiny voluntarily withdrew its lawsuit. Google then asked the company to waive the right to pursue its copyright allegations. According to Google, the label refused, preserving its option to refile its claims.

Now Google has decided that it wants the court battle. The company has filed a 96-page complaint with the California district court, asking for a declaratory judgment that it’s not infringing Blue Destiny’s copyrights.

Google is showing a bit of hubris in its latest move. By going on the offensive, Google gets to do battle with a much smaller company in the inevitable fight over whether search engines facilitate copyright infringement. Plus, Google gets a more favorable jurisdiction than a Florida court. The Ninth Circuit has been friendly to Google in similar litigation with Perfect 10, an adult entertainment publisher that tried to punish search engines for indexing copyrighted photos.
Google has now sued the indie, asking a more friendly Californian court to provide a declaratory judgement whether links to cyberlockers constitute infringement. Victory would ensure a significant area of liability for Google would be removed. But even Reuters is moved to describe Google’s response as “hubristic”.

As well as drawing attention to the disparity in the resources available to Google and companies who depend on copyright – Google’s annual revenue is larger than the entire global record industry – the aggressive litigation also sends out a message to copyright businesses that they should not dare to antagonise the internet giant.

The mood has changed significantly in recent months. While Google may win this court battle, it may be losing the longer, bigger war.

The trade unions have swung behind the creators, in the shape of the TUC-backed Creative Coalition Campaign in the UK, and the AFL-CIO in the US. The release of emails in the Viacom litigation showed Google executives burying their ethical reservations and buying YouTube anyway – so much for “Do no evil”.

Less than seven months after its release, Microsoft’s (MSFT) Windows 7 operating system now has more users than its much maligned predecessor, Windows VistaJanco Assocoiates, a management consulting firm, has released data regarding Browser and Operating System Market Share. While the tale regarding the browsers looks familiar, when it comes to the Operating Systems, there is a major revelation.

Windows 7, in just seven months since its release, holds 14.8 percent of the OS market. This takes the number of people using Windows 7 more than the number of people using Vista, the older OS from Microsoft.

Janco CEO Victor Janulaitis quips, “There are now more users of Windows 7 than Vista. That is a major factor in their improved record earnings. The last OS that was accepted as quickly in the market was XP. Vista’s market share has peaked and is in the process of being decommissioned in most enterprises.” Janulaitis added, “The last six months have been a mixed bag for Microsoft. While they have good news on the OS front, their browser market share has fallen to the level that it was in 1998.”
Microsoft controls almost 94% of the PC operating systems market with versions of Windows, including Windows XP, which still has 61.6% of the market 8.5 years after its release.

Apple’s (AAPL) Macintosh operating system has 4.2% of the market, according to Janco.

While Microsoft has a hit with Windows 7, its Internet Explorer Web browser continues to lose ground. Internet Explorer is still No. 1 with 67.3% of the Web browser market in April, but that’s down from 71.4% a year earlier, Janco says.