Comments on: Viruses wiggle into IM chats

Having long targeted e-mail with sometimes devastating effects, virus and worm creators are setting their sights on IM services.

[ashikiar]

yahoo IM virus?

I received an offline message from someone in my Yahoo buddy list with a link to a spoofed Yahoo Games website. After I clicked on the link, my Yahoo ID was no longer functional. Not only can I not log into my account, but I can't recover my password. The person who I got the message from had an identical problem.

Has anyone else experienced this? If so, any word from Yahoo?

Yahoo IM Virus

I am also having this exact problem. I can't get into my email account. Yahoo will not even look at it without me sending a copy of my photo ID and all of my personal information of my account. That sounds extremely fishy. But I haven't been able to locate any cure for this system of the down.

[inatene]

Yahoo IM virus

I just received this virus - do I need to do anything besides change my Yahoo password?

[myidty10]

Same Problem - Yahoo IM virus

I have exactly the same problem. I can't login to my account any more. I also remember facing the similar offline message in the Yahoo messenger. The worst part is that when I contacted the Yahoo Customer Service, I couldn't request a new password since I dont remember the information that I entered while making the account years back. Hence am stuck. Please let me know if there is a way out.

[myidty10]

Same Problem - Yahoo IM virus

I have exactly the same problem. I can't login to my account any more. I also remember facing the similar offline message in the Yahoo messenger. The worst part is that when I contacted the Yahoo Customer Service, I couldn't request a new password since I dont remember the information that I entered while making the account years back. Hence am stuck. Please let me know if there is a way out.