Today One of my friend got a PM from a his cousin on his Yahoo! Messenger buddy list with a link to an image. Since it was only an image and that too from a his cousin, He clicked the link and was taken to an error page. This was the PM -
Do you realize who is in this image:
http://thecoolpics.net/who.jpg . Just think for a moment and tell me soon<<<<<
About half an hour later He got another PM from him saying -
hey. i m in a cyber cafe. this machine is loaded wid viruses. so a bad picture has been sent to every1 on my frenz list! my due apologies.
This is the second IM Virus He came across this month.
Two hours later He got many more of these PMs from different friends. These were some of those PMs -
Images shot in Iraq _ The war will never end http://thecoolpics.net/Iraqwar.jpg
never click into the links like something in this image http://thecoolpics.net/dontclick.jpg :-S !!!
Did you notice that all these PMs have a common URL -http://thecoolpics.net ?so I am guessing that this is a new IM virus.
Actually I am not sure if this is a virus because it has the extension jpg. Anyways don’t click the link if you get a similar PM.
Is this a virus? Have you got similar PMs?