In the last week, weve been seeing IRCBots which have the ability to spread via AOL Instant Messenger. The remote malicious user has the. ability to tell the bot to start the IM spreading routine. The bots code contains a text sentence, which in turn contains an.html link. The. malicious user fills this link with the. URL of his/ her choice what the AOL user receives is the sentence complete with link. Bropia.ad copies itself using a range of different filenames to the shared directories of popular P2P programs.”]
Source: https://securelist.com/im-malware-diversifying/30017/