Yahoo Messenger virus on the loose!

I’ve been noticing that a lot of people on my YM list are sending me random messages with links to some sites. I’ve had this before and that time it was coming from my end so now I know people are just infected by a new worm somehow.

I also got this form one of my contacts:

PLS BE INFORMED IMMEDIATELY! A virus is on a rampage in Messengers. The virus name is WORM_SOHAND.I. It shows itself as an innocent IM with a link to a site and tells you it is about cool pictures. Whne the link is clicked, it takes control of your registry, changes your browsers homepage and disables you to change the homepage! after clicked it also sends itself to everyone in your messenger list. So if you recieve it, please remeber DO NOT CLICK THE LINK! just close the window or read the other offline messages. Warning: it may come from your closest friends to! PLEASE, PASS IT ON TO ALL

Anybody else experiencing this lately? I did a search and it’s not yet showing up anywhere but definitely it’s a virus/worm.

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53 Comments

Arbet says:

18 years ago

Hi, check out Trend Micro’s description for the variant I http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=WORM_SOHANAD.I

I had tried clicking on one of those links, and users of FireFox are somewhat safe from this. This virus shows a lot of messages and links.
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jong says:

18 years ago

ilang beses ko na experience eto. But i haven’t tried clicking the links because it is unusual for my friends to give a link with a random message and stuff…
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DannyBoy says:

18 years ago

I was warned early on that thru YM, virus exists. Good thing Im not using YM past days. So yup we got company.
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Miguel says:

18 years ago

I’m now using GAIM for YM and XMPP (our internal company IM). I was using it for Windows Live (or MSN Messenger) but I believe I lost a message so I dropped it.
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jepoy says:

18 years ago

firefox users are safe from that YM virus :)
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ade says:

18 years ago

Unfortunately, even though there were sufficient warnings, people still get infected.
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ade says:

18 years ago

@ Jep[oy: even though we Firefox users are surfing safer, let’s not be complacent. ;)
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Joseph says:

18 years ago

I have that message whenever I open YM. But I never open the link because although the sender is on my list, we did not have a prior conversation/chat.
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GUrbi says:

18 years ago

Me, I also received that link in my YM and it brought me to a site where I got the virus. I have posted some suggestions on how to recover from Yahoo Messenger Virus. Visit my blog for more details…
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eric says:

18 years ago

i do get that offline messages from time to time. usually from contacts. but i never open these links since the offline messages appear to be very doubtful. mukhang hindi talaga galing sa contacts ang message.
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