Information Madness

Its been more than 2 to three years I have used Yahoo Messenger on my computer. Mostly because I use my smartphone for most of the IM needs. But for the last one month or so, I started getting annoying messages on my mobile yahoo IM from my friends.

The message starts with my friend saying "Hey" or "Hello" or "hi" and then once you respond to that, the next message would be "I just took an IQ test here...pretty cool"..It actually started annoying me until I found out that my friend's computer's are affected by malware and their Yahoo Messengers are taking control over.

So if you are a victim of such thing, here are the things you can do..

1. The first thing to do is, go to http://webmessenger.yahoo.com, and change the password for your yahoo account.
2. Now install one of the free Sypware removal tool on you computer. The one I like is Spybot Search & Destroy. Spyware Doctor is another good one out there
3. Uninstall the existing Yahoo messenger that you have on your computer and then re-install the latest version.

That should probably fix your problem. So look out for Yahoo Messenger's IQ Test Hack attack.