IMlogic Threat Center reports Tixanbot Trojan and Guapim Worm spreading over leading public IM networks.

WHAT: Industry leader IMlogic (www.imlogic.com) is warning customers
    that the Tixanbot trojan and Guapim worm are using instant
    messaging to spread. Users infected with Tixanbot will have their
    security protection shut down and will broadcast messages to
    everyone on their MSN Messenger contact list. This message
    contains a link to download a copy of the Trojan. The Guapim worm
    behaves similarly although it uses MSN Messenger and another
    leading public IM network, as well as other P2P file sharing
    networks to distribute links to download a variant of the Spybot
    worm.

    Usage of IM in malware distribution continues to rapidly increase.
    Along with the threats mentioned above, the IMlogic Threat
    Center has detected over 140 new threats in the past two
    weeks. Included in this list are variants of the popular and
    dangerous Kelvir, RBot, and Zotob worms. And as shown with the
    Guapim worm, blended threats are increasing in popularity as
    well.

    To learn more about Tixanbot and Guapim, visit the IMlogic IM and
    P2P Threat Center at:
    http://www.imlogic.com/im_threat_center/index.asp

    IMlogic automatically protects customers against emerging IM
    threats by providing automatic security policy updates to
    IMlogic IM Manager from the IMlogic Threat Center, the
    industry's first and leading IM & P2P threat center. IMlogic
    also recommends organizations protect themselves by ensuring
    all desktop antivirus solutions are updated, the latest
    security patches have been applied to all desktop systems, and
    that all out of date IM clients have been blocked from
    accessing the relevant IM networks. Organizations should also
    leverage their current firewall security products to block
    unwanted peer-to-peer and chat technologies.

WHO: Experts from the IMlogic Threat Center can speak with technology
    and business reporters, industry analysts, enterprises, partners
    or anyone concerned about the impact of this threat. IMlogic can
    also offer commentary involving increased risk from IM worms,
    viruses and other security threats related to the growing
    popularity of IM use within enterprise.

MORE INFO: Learn more at IMlogic's Threat Center:
    http://www.imlogic.com/im_threat_center/index.asp.

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