In all of the instances where I've seen YM infected with malware, it's usually where the recipient would get an IM, usually with a link, appearing to be from someone on their friends list, but their friend did not know they were sending out these malicious IM's. I regularly get IM's from a few of my friends with a long IM about some weight loss fruit or something and a link. Of course, I never click the link and eventually, I'm able to alert my friend that they are sending out these IM's and links and then help them clean out their computer.
I know my computer is clean and yet I am the one getting these IM's. Since it was you that received the IM, I would suspect it came from your friend, not from you... but I guess anything is possible. Download, install and run the two programs I suggested below and let us know if they find anything. I'm not sure why the malicious IM would disappear from your IM window but possibly it is designed to do that when someone clicks on the link. Since I've never clicked the link, the IM's stay in the IM window and in my archives. Do you save your archived chats? If yes, check in there on the day and with the friend you were chatting with to see if it's still in there or not. On a side note, are you using an updated browser? If you are still using an old version of Internet Explorer, then you really shouldn't be surfing the net at all as those old versions are VERY SUSCEPTIBLE to drive by malware just by visiting a website. Further, besides the two anti-malware programs for manual scanning, below, if you are not using a real-time antivirus, antimalware and firewall, might I suggest Comodo Internet Security which is FREE from http://www.Comodo.com and it's a very good security suite that does not use up a lot of resources compared to suites like Norton or McAfee. I run CIS on all three of my computers, including an OLD one with only 384MB or RAM and even it runs fine with CIS keeping it clean, although I still run weekly scans with MalwareBytes, a-Squared Free, Spybot, etc., but these other three programs rarely find anything more than a tracking cookies. Comodo's firewall is an award winning standalone program and their antivirus and antimalware have come a long way in the past year and I saw where the CIS program ranked in the top three or four of security suites with over a 97% protection score. The programs ahead of Comodo scored like 98% and 99% but they were NOT free programs. I'm not sure there's much difference between 97% and 99% for that matter... as they are all excellent scores. Lenny Vasbinder http://lennyvasbinder.blogspot.com FREE and automatic online remote backup of your documents, photos and files... https://mozy.com/?ref=SY4ZSI Check out how simple and secure it can be to use the Mozy remote backup system. Mozy will back up your most important files and folders every day/night while you aren't using your computer. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ben Kaufman Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 12:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Y!M] Re: My messenger was hacked Lenny, I can understand how the Malware could do "typing" for him, but AFAIK, there is no way for a remote IM to make a post disappear on my IM screen (right?). That's why I believe that it was me who had been hacked. Ben --- In [email protected], "LNVTM1 - Lenny Vasbinder" <lnv...@...> wrote: > > Oh yeah.. one other thing. Your friend likely has a virus or malware > that is sending out that malicious link to people on his/her friends > list. I have several of my "friends" that have this virus/malware > right now. Both you and your friend need to run a litany of malware > scans on your computers to clear up any malware on them. Besides your > normal antivirus, also download and run http://www.MalwareBytes.com > and a-Squared Free http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/ ... both > of them are free and very good at finding things that your antivirus might miss. > > Pass this info on to your friend as well. > > Lenny Vasbinder > http://lennyvasbinder.blogspot.com > FREE and automatic online remote backup of your documents, photos and > files... https://mozy.com/?ref=SY4ZSI Check out how simple and secure > it can be to use the Mozy remote backup system. Mozy will back up > your most important files and folders every day/night while you aren't > using your computer. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Linda > Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 3:36 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Y!M] Re: My messenger was hacked > > Mine was hacked a couple of years ago. I got a message from someone I > knew telling me they had a new site for their pictures and to check it > out. I clicked on it and I think the log in window for messenger came > up, I logged in...and that was all it took, GONE! > > I did get it back, but had to make phone calls to Yahoo. I had to > send them a copy of my driver's license, and describe what I had in my > profile. It took a while and a huge hassle, but got it back. > > BTW, I am the moderator, and I don't know what you meant about > contacting you at your email address. I mainly just approve members and messengers. > There are so many more people on this group who are much more > knowledgable than I am. > > Linda > > --- In [email protected], "Ben Kaufman" <benkaufman1@> > wrote: > > > > Urgent - my yahoo IM was hacked. > > Essentially, it appeared that a friend I was IMing with posted a link. > > I went to the link, resisted clicking on anything else, it looked > > weird, > so when I went back to his IM session window to ask him about it, the > link was gone and he denied typing it. > > I sent this msg, with more detail, to the main yahoo feedback link. > > I > include it here incase they do not see it for some time, and since > this is the yahoo IM tech group help group. > > > > Moderator, for further info, pls contact me at my email address > > registered > with this account. > > > > Thx.
