There is a virus that’s being spread out to all computers with Yahoo Messenger installed.

I’ve noticed that in the past few days, I’ve been getting instant messages (IM) from people on my friends list that looks something like this:

yahoo-messenger-virus

One time I got this IM from a friend, who is supposed to be in the office, where, I believe, there is no meebo* access. So I texted him and asked him if he’s online on Yahoo Messenger and he answered “No? Are you sure that was me?”

The virus seems to automatically log on Yahoo Messenger accounts on computers that are infected and sends this message to all of the people on the account’s friends list.

Beware!

Update:

- (Mar-01-2009) A reader gave me this link that gives information about this virus from the CA Security system website: http://community.ca.com/blogs/securityadvisor/archive/2009/02/26/spim-preys-on-obesity.aspx