Jue's Blog

Feb 24, 2009

GChat virus? [Update: Yes.]

Just got three suspicious messages on Gmail via offline gChat, two from contacts I don’t normally even talk to.

gChat Suspicious Messages

Clicking on the links leads to sites that Google Chrome identifies as being malicious. This would be the first time I’ve seen malware operating through Google’s software, although a quick search for “ichat virus” turns up some intriguing leads. Anyone know what’s going on?

UPDATE: This is a virus, or rather, a spam / phishing site. Don’t click the link, or if you do, don’t type in your gchat password. Huffington Post has more here.