AOL parasites

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WHAT IS AN AOL PARASITE?

An AOL parasite is a malicious computer program designed to harm users of specific America Online software, especially AOL Instant Messenger (or AIM). It also can affect users of different applications such as ICQ messenger. An AOL parasite exploits certain AOL software vulnerabilities in order to attack or flood computers running it, steal particular passwords, account details More...and other valuable information of this software users, log all their keystrokes and capture online chat conversations. A typical AOL parasite is similar to the Internet worm and therefore is able to spread through messages with harmful links or infected attachments.

Some AOL parasites do not affect the system to which they are installed. These threats are created to compromise remote computers and are often used by hackers for various malicious purposes. A presence of such pests on a regular computer means that the system was successfully attacked and now is under the attacker’s control.
Most AOL parasites actually are specific trojans, worms, backdoors, viruses, spyware or hacking tools. However, their functions and payload differ from regular threats, so they were grouped into one special category. Navigate to AOL parasites

Newest AOL parasites

AIM IP Sniffer

December 14th, 2011
AIM IP Sniffer is program which manage to Sniff IP adresses of AOL users. Users are able to capture both incoming and outgoing traffic, examine individual packets. AIM IP Sniffer shows you raw packets and does full analysis of main network protocols: IP, TCP, UDP, ARP. More...

Moshpunt 2K

July 7th, 2009
Moshpunt 2K is AOL parasite made by MoSHPuNTeR in July, 2000. . . More...

Ickiller-Trojan

December 20th, 2007
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DATABASE OF AOL parasites PARASITES

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  • ActivityX Custom Control June 28th, 2004 No Comments
    From the publisher: The ActivityX custom control is designed to allow an application access to the powerful facilities ...
  • Aegis 1.9 May 17th, 2004 No Comments
    Aegis is well known German AOL parasite. From the Aegis publisher: 'Also dies ist mal eine kleine erkl?rung manch...
  • AIM 1.87 May 17th, 2004 No Comments
    AIM 1.87 is AOL parasite made by Darkclown_Upset in April, 1999.
  • AIM 3K May 17th, 2004 No Comments
    AIM 3K is AOL parasite. The same author made Dickler Trojan and Voice Trojan.
  • AIM Abomination 2 May 17th, 2004 No Comments
    AIM Abomination 2 is AOL parasite made by Brennan's Computer in November, 1999
  • AIM IP Sniffer December 14th, 2011 2 Comments
    AIM IP Sniffer is program which manage to Sniff IP adresses of AOL users. Users are able to capture both incoming and o...
  • AIM Protocol Exploits May 17th, 2004 No Comments
    AIM Protocol Exploits is AOL parasite. The same author made AIM Password Stealer (James), AOL Instant Messenger (AIM)...
  • AIMFatal May 17th, 2004 No Comments
    AIMFatal is AOL parasite which can steal passwords, exploit, do DoS attacks, or ICQ hacks aimed at users of AOL.
  • AIMJacker May 17th, 2004 No Comments
    AIMJacker sends all stored usernames and passwords to the attacker's ICQ number. From the AIMJacker publisher : ''o...
  • AOAnarchy 96 May 18th, 2004 No Comments
    AOAnarchy 96 is AOL parasite which can steal passwords, exploit, do DoS attacks, or ICQ hacks aimed at users of AOL....
  • AOEWY May 18th, 2004 No Comments
    AOEWY is AOL parasite which can steal passwords, exploit, do DoS attacks, or ICQ hacks aimed at users of AOL. ...
  • AOFun May 18th, 2004 No Comments
    AOFun is AOL parasite which can steal passwords, exploit, do DoS attacks, or ICQ hacks aimed at users of AOL. ...
  • AOHade May 18th, 2004 No Comments
    AOHade is AOL parasite which can steal passwords, exploit, do DoS attacks, or ICQ hacks aimed at users of AOL. ...
  • AOHell 96 May 18th, 2004 No Comments
    AOHell 96 is AOL parasite made by SoSo in December, 1996.
  • AOKilla May 18th, 2004 No Comments
    AOKilla is AOL parasite which has a fax bomber.
  • AOL 4.x Exploit May 18th, 2004 No Comments
    Well known security problem in America OnLine 4.x allows users to remotely crash AOL 4.x software by sending Email wh...
  • AOL 5 CogWheel Icon May 18th, 2004 No Comments
    AOL 5 CogWheel Icon is AOL parasite which can steal passwords, exploit, do DoS attacks, or ICQ hacks aimed at users of A...
  • AOL Hell 96 March 6th, 2005 No Comments
    AOL Hell 96 is AOL parasite which can steal passwords, exploit, do DoS attacks, or ICQ hacks aimed at users of AOL....
  • AOLaZy May 20th, 2004 No Comments
    AOLaZy is AOL parasite which can steal passwords, exploit, do DoS attacks, or ICQ hacks aimed at users of AOL.
  • AOLPass October 30th, 2005 No Comments
    AOLPass is an AOL parasite that monitors user activity and attempts to steal AOL login name and password and send them t...
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WAYS OF INFECTION

Typical AOL parasites are able to propagate by themselves and infect the system without user knowledge. Others must be installed as any other software with or without user consent. There are three major ways unsolicited AOL parasites can get into the system.

1. Lots of AOL parasites infect a computer by exploiting certain software vulnerabilities. They work similarly to worms and automatically spread without user knowledge. The user cannot notice anything suspicious, as such threats do not display any setup wizards, dialogs or warnings.
2. Some AOL parasites rely on user’s carelessness and credulity. They trick an instant messenger user by sending him a message with embedded links leading to insecure web sites or attached files containing malicious code. Usually a threat gets silently installed once a user clicks on such links or opens such files.
3. AOL parasites often are installed by other security and privacy risks such as viruses, trojans, backdoors or even spyware. They get into the system without user knowledge and consent and violate privacy of every user of a particular application. AOL parasites affect mostly computers running Microsoft Windows operating system and specific AOL or ICQ software.

WHAT AN AOL PARASITE DOES?

- Steals various passwords, login names, UINs (Universal Internet Number used in ICQ network), identity details and other sensitive user information.
- Infects or crashes remote computers running vulnerable software by exploiting unfixed security vulnerabilities, sending excessive amount of messages, performing DoS (Denial of Service) or similar network attacks.
- Captures online conversations by logging all user keystrokes typed within AOL Instant Messenger or ICQ program or using other similar techniques.
- Sends messages with attached infected files or links to malicious web sites to all the users from the contact list. Clicking on a link or opening a file usually infects a computer with even more dangerous parasites.
- Retrieves information about installed AOL or ICQ software, finds out computer’s IP address and other network and system information.
- Sends all gathered data to a predefined e-mail address, uploads it to a predetermined FTP server or transfers it through a background Internet connection to a remote host.
- Kills active AIM or ICQ session without asking for user permission.
- Propagates through AIM, ICQ or other chat networks.
- Provides no uninstall feature, hides processes, files and other objects in order to complicate its removal as much as possible.

EXAMPLES OF AOL PARASITES

There are lots of different AOL parasites. The following examples illustrate their typical behavior and payload.

Omerstroke is an AOL parasite that monitors user activity in AIM messenger and records account passwords. It also can capture any user message. Omerstroke sends gathered data to the attacker by e-mail. Once executed, the parasite displays a fake error message and quietly installs itself to the system. Omerstroke automatically runs on every Windows startup and hides from the user.

ICQ Zap sends extremely large amount of messages to a designated ICQ user. Such activity not only severely decreases Internet connection speed and overall performance of an attacked computer, but can also disconnect it from the Internet and crash the entire system.

ISpyU parasite affects ICQ users. It acts as a proxy server, which allows to capture all the chat messages being sent from a computer where ISpyU is installed. The parasite doesn’t harm the system, but poses significant threat for user privacy.

CONSEQUENCES OF INFECTION

Most AOL parasites pose serious threat to user privacy. Attackers analyse conversations captured with the help of these pests in order to find out with whom a user contacts, about what he talks, where he lives, what it does for life, what are his current plans, etc. Malicious persons can get exact identity details, bank account information, even credit card numbers and other sensitive data that unaware users disclose in their personal talks. Furthermore, hackers and potential criminals can use recorded AIM or ICQ login names and passwords to disable particular accounts or use them for unclear purposes. For example,  to trick user’s spouse, friends, relatives, colleagues or kids into disclosing critical personal information.

Some AOL parasites cause multiple technical problems. They severely degrade Internet connection speed or make it totally unusable, exploit certain software vulnerabilities to install a way more dangerous parasites, even crash a computer by performing Denial of Service or similar network attacks.

HOW TO REMOVE AN AOL PARASITE?

Most AOL parasites work in the same manner as the computer viruses and therefore can be found and removed with the help of effective antivirus products like Symantec Norton AntiVirus, Kaspersky Anti-Virus, McAfee VirusScan, eTrust EZ Antivirus, Panda Titanium Antivirus, AVG Anti-Virus. Some advanced spyware removers, which are able to scan the system in a similar way antivirus software does and have extensive parasite signature databases can also detect and remove AOL parasites and related components. Powerful anti-spyware solutions such as Spyware Doctor, Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta, Spybot - Search & Destroy, Ad-Aware SE, SpyHunter, eTrust PestPatrol are well-known for perfect AOL parasite detection and removal capabilities.

In some cases even an antivirus or spyware remover can fail to get rid of a particular threat. That is why there are Internet resources such as 2-Spyware.com, which provide manual malware removal instructions. These instructions allow the user to manually delete all the files, directories, registry entries and other objects that belong to a parasite. However, manual removal requires fair system knowledge and therefore can be a quite difficult and tedious task for novices.

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