# Virus in Yahoo Messenger?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virus-in-yahoo-messenger/336062>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 17, 2005, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virus-in-yahoo-messenger/336062 "2005-12-17T16:21:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Craneop2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Craneop2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Craneop2)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virus-in-yahoo-messenger/336062/1 "2005-12-17T16:21:46Z")

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I seem to recall sometime back a virus warning which said something to the effect of “I am leaving yahoo messenger because afford the cost anymore. If you do not respond to this message I will delete you from my contact list”. Or something to that effect. I late read somewhere that this particular message was carrying a virus. Has anyone heard of this or am I mis-remembering.

BTW I am using MacAfee through AOL Roadrunner on XP. Is this a sufficient virus protection?

I read through the above sticky concerning computer problems, and I saw nothing that addressed this.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virus-in-yahoo-messenger/336062/2 "2005-12-17T16:44:24Z")

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[Google](http://www.google.com/search?q=yahoo+messenger+virus&sourceid=mozilla&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8) is a wonderful tool. 😃