Can A Virus Make Yahoo! Messenger Send Weird Links?

there are so many worms that target yahoo messenger at the moment, most will send out random IM's to your friends with urls, or change your current status message along with a clickable url, we have the most common ones currently causing grief at...

http://www.wackyb.co.nz/vb/forumdisplay.php?f=22

It's quite a mission to work what one a user may have as currently installed virus scanners are often a target (being disabled by the worm) so a clean bill of health from an installed antivirus program might in fact be incorrect... hence the online virus scanners as an option, below are some of the most common ones used...

Trend http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_fr...

BitDefender http://www.bitdefender.com/scan8/

F-Secure http://support.f-secure.com/enu/home/ols.shtml

Panda http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/activescan

ppl need to pay close attention to the worm/trojan and variant details the scanner will provide as if one of the system files is currently in use it will be unable to be removed they may have to download additional programs and / or follow details instructions (which they will provide) from safe mode

there are more online AVs listed in http://www.wackyb.co.nz/vb/showthread.php?t=397 if the above aren't suitable :)

one of the worms causing the most grief at the moment is...

WORM_SOHANAD.I (and variants of)

which gives status messages and sends random IM's to friends with links like...

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wtf is this ? wanna give me a

oh my god , i've won a 20000 usd lottery

co0l !

if those look familiar check out...

Trend...

http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/defau...

or

Panda...

http://www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/encycloped...

both offer free online virus scanners to help them remove it :)

once the issue has been resolved or to avoid being infected give serious consideration to ensuring that your operating system is up to date...

http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/

as some of the worms doing the rounds on yahoo (and other IM's) at the moment are only made possible because ppl haven't used windows update for critical and security patches so the worms/trojans are using known security issues

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First of all update both your spyware and virus programs. then go into Safe mode and run them. If you don't know how to go ino safe mode, restart the computer and continually press the F8 key until a screen comes up with Safe Mode. The reason for using Safe mode is some viruses and trojans like to hide in running applications and in safe mode, Windows does not start any applications it does not need , for instance your web browser, etc.

my suggestion is to change your password.Your friend may not have a virus, but instead someone has gotten their password and is doing it. A friend of mine and I both had a problem with someone going in and sending messages to sex websites to all of our friends. Someone has somehow managed to get in and do this. Hopefully that will help you. I plan on changing my password weekly now. I also set up another id and added it to my buddy list, so that i can check to see if anyone has gotten in and sent messages again.

Yahoo Messenger is a hacker's paradise.

Yes - don't click on these or you'll be infected too. Run your virus check. I have gotten several of these from friends too.

sounds like it's an adware problem. Most virious programs won't catch the problem you need to get an adware sweeper.

whhat type of wierd links? if they are adds of any type i would scan your pc for a addware or trojen hoarse called mediea fastclick or addware btw dan p is sooo wrong

No it can't because yahoo has a virus protection so you can't at all.

Get a good antivirus program. Here you have some free options:

http://askcomputerexpert.ws43.com/download/securit...