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My husband IM’d me this morning asking me why a friend of mine sent him an IM with a link to a geocities website in it. I told him I had no clue. Then later today I received a similar message from the same friend. Then another buddy I haven’t heard from in years popped up a message, and so on, and so on. At this point I shut the darn thing down and now I am afraid to turn it back on if it is a virus.
I updated my Norton virus today but who knows if it will protect me.
Anyone else have this issue?Sounds like somebody phishing for ID’s with spoofed Yahoo webpages. Be careful not to enter in your password on any link a friend’s ID may send you. Your friend may have lost their ID and somebody may be trying to steal everybody’s else ID on that first person’s friends list.
I agree, and if so then no amount of Nortons or whatever at YOUR end will stop these IMs – the virus will be on your FRIENDS’ end, not yours.
Just as long as you dont énter any info at those links (or better still, just DO NOT CLICK THEM) then you should have no problem.
Ideally contact the sender VIA SOME OTHER MEANS, e.g. email, MSN, phone… (as that YM account may no longer be under their control) and confirm if they really ARE sending you these things.
Also you should probably report the link to yahoo,include the ID that sent the link and they will take action on it send an email to cc-advoc@yahoo.com
If you are worried you are infected then I would suggest you pop over to http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/activescan. As Eagle pointed as long as you don’t click on the link you will be fine,and I would not recommend you IM or email the person in the future.
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