Aim Screen Name Hacker

Our team has discovered a rather nasty little program currently in circulation relying on trickery and the desire to obtain "secret" information to get itself installed. Once onboard the machine, it has the potential to steal banking information, drop you into a Botnet and generally give you a very bad day as your computer becomes a drone controlled by an unknown botmaster.

The vector of attack appears to be focused in the chat realm - across AIM Chat, IRC Chat and regular web-based chat. The link usually looks like this:

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