A news has been released by The Register that an unnamed worm which targets a popular instant messaging software, Skype, is now also attacking other similar software such as ICQ and MSN.

The worm shows a user a chat message which contains a link to a malicious website. The article notes that the site contains a .pif file which will infect the computer of the user.

According to FaceTime Communications, the malware attempts to spread by creating messages in MSN and ICQ.

Chris Boyd of FaceTime writes, “The infection checks the registry for evidence of programs like AIM, Trillian, Yahoo Messenger, Miranda and ICQ - however, so far we’ve only seen it fire a message to an ICQ and an MSN Messenger Client.”

FaceTime thinks that this was made by the same people who created a Skype worm before.

Source: The Register