I am getting new infected status messages in my staus bar of Yahoo messenger?

Question

Because of this messages all the members in my lists are getting virus infected messages which is resulting in crashing of system . please reply asap on this problem so that we can stop this virus to be spread more.

Answer 1

if any of these look familiar....

AutoIt.D ~  http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/autoit_d...

W32/YahLover.worm ~ http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_140628....

W32.Yautoit  ~ http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/secur...

follow the instructions each site provides for removing.

if you are unsure what worm you have your best bet is to do a virus scan of your computer, if you currently installed AVG fails try to run one of the online versions below...

Trend http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecal...

BitDefender http://www.bitdefender.com/scan8/

F-Secure http://support.f-secure.com/enu/home/ols...

Panda http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/ac...

and follow the steps they recommend for complete removal

Answer 2

look at the top of your messenger and click help.. then type in your question there.. bummer eh 2 have that going on..