Folks,

There seem to be a virus spreading through Yahoo Messenger. It automatically changes your 'Status ' from "Available" to some obscene caption and automatically forwards a link to its download site to all addresses on your messenger list, sometimes inviting them to view a picture by clicking the link.

Sometimes you may get scores of offensive offline messages from persons in your contact list- most probabbly sent by this nagging virus!

It seems the virus attaches to and modifies the code of Yahoo messenger, so it is not commonly detected or removed by conventional Anti-virus programs.

Has anybody got any tool or success yet in eliminating this scourge that seems to be in the wild?

I received such virus too, I started by sending rude reply to such senders not knowing it was a virus. It is really annoying. Today, I had to delete a particular yahoo id that was sending such message. I guess yahoo must have heard of this hackers.

i know I'm getting those messages and its pissing me off.

I have the virus too n its been annoying it changed my homepage to this site i had to unin$tall my messenger pls if anyøne gets the remedy pls post

Is there any way to stop it, pls post it here.

or we can report this to Yahoo! what do u think?

Yes o thats one nasty virus, it also affects MSN messenger and sends crazy/obscene messages to all ur contacts

Hello Forumites,

I had the same problem and i used the following steps to solve my problem:

I have two account : the administrator profile ( where u can modify and install programmes and the client profile ( which is restrictive in modification). The Virus attacked my Client profile while my administrator's account remained unaffected. I logged into the admin account and deleted the Client account and restarted the computer ( usually deleted account recreats itself automatically). After restart, immediately update your Anti-Virus

This is the method i used and it solved my problem. If the administrator account is affected, then the computer will have to be formatted.

Cheers.

The virus name is W32.Mydoom.I@mm

Do u really hav to format it? cant u just uninstall the Messenger and install a new one??

It may work. Just that the fastest way to get rid of the virus is the account deletion

Thank God
I knew there was something wrong wit Yahoo Messenger When i receive such links all d time.
I just know 1 thing -Don't Click,

lol

you can get rid of that virus sharply with spyware doctor, just google for it, dwnload / run / sca / fix / n ure free

bt learn 1 very important lesson, DNT JUST CLICK ANYTHN!!!