BBC picks up the story of the AIM worm that’s going around:

‘Users of America Online’s instant messenger are being warned about a worm spreading via the chat network.

The Windows worm installs spyware programs and turns over control of the machine to the creator of the virus.

Studies show that malicious programs designed to attack instant message networks have grown dramatically over the past 12 months.’

Read more at Worm affects AOL instant messages

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