I was in Zamboanga last week and since I do not have a laptop, I go through the hassle of going to an internet cafe to open my email and chat with my hubby. While I was busy chatting, I noticed that a yahoo messenger virus infected my IM account. I know this because my yahoo messenger status automatically changes and it displays some incomprehensible foreign words. My online buddies were also telling me that I got another virus in my yahoo messenger (the first and worst being the funny UST scandal virus).
I do not know how I got the virus since I did not click any link or file in my yahoo messenger at all. I think that most computers in (hardly maintained) computer shops are really vulnerable to viruses. Anyway, microsoft offers some tips on how to avoid getting an IM or yahoo messenger virus:
1. Avoid clicking on links and accepting files in your IM. That is, if you do not know the sender or you think the person sending the file or showing the link is least likely going to do that in his sane mind. Verify with the sender if he is really sending a link or what shows up in his account is a yahoo messenger virus.
2. Use updated IM software. Updated and newer IM software versions are updated to combat against security and virus threats. Now I know why I should not be lazy in updating my IM software.
3. Use updated antispyware and antivirus software. Anti spyware and anti virus software that are not updated may not be able to identify and protect the computer from malicious spywares and virus that may attack your PC and yahoo messenger.
March 7th, 2009 at 12:03 am
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July 25th, 2008 at 6:22 am
Khryzten,
Here is the solution to your problem http://cantalktech.com/2008/01/18/how-to-remove-the-funny-ust-scandal-avi-virus/
July 25th, 2008 at 5:40 am
i was selling new & second hand pc, then my costumer came back saying they will return the unit coz it has virus,i ask them if what virus attacks their pc they said when they are chatting it automatically send the funny ust scandal and the mouse goes anywhere and they cannot able to control it, i was trying to explain that they got the virus in yahoo by chatting, but they did not understand me instead they are fighting with me saying they will return back the unit after a month they have been used. really it was funny happened to me and to my costumer’s. HEEEELLLLLPPPPPPPPP! how can i removed that virus?
July 15th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
hi friends for internet , messenger virus(funny ust scandle)
i prefer the software to remove and protect your register file is regrun software(it is not an antivirus).
thank u bye…………..
June 19th, 2008 at 3:50 am
how u do that?
June 18th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Write a new status message, it will change the ust scandal message in your status
June 18th, 2008 at 10:37 am
I DOWNLOADED THE SCANDAL STOP OR WHAT EVER WAS THE NAME THEN CLIKED ON SOMETHING IN TAGALOG AND THE SCANDAL STOP MOVING AROUND,
June 18th, 2008 at 8:06 am
how did you delete the virus?
June 18th, 2008 at 3:57 am
yes that happend to me too i was chating with someone in the phil, and i was all over with that scandal viruse, i did block it or remove it after i saw here the easy way to do it but i still can’t remove from ” my statuse” the viruse its not active but it is there,
March 9th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
in my yahoo there is virus
the mouse is whoming here and there
bu