IM Threats: The Dark Side of Innovation

There's innovation, and then there's innovation. The dark side of innovation is evident in the rising threat from smarter IM worms. After all, innovation isn't so great when it means that hackers are getting sophisticated enough to write IM worms that can chat you up or deliver rootkits.

As it now stands, recent worms can tell what language to speak to you in and will even attempt to fool users with rudimentary conversations. IM Threats: The Dark Side of Innovation