Messenger applications of Yahoo and Microsoft are facing new attack from malware which can infect the PC and user will not be able to know about this.
This malware download itself and infect user's PC and generally it infects contacts list made in both messenger application of Yahoo and MSN
If a user does not open any file, this malware can infect the PC in that condition also. However other malwares are delivered normally through attachments and infect the PC but this one is different from others.
As a reader of ZDNet Asia sister site ZDNet.com.au has said that his PC was affected by this malware afternoon and this malware installed itself in windows registry.
Whenever a user visit any website, ads that are going to be displayed will be replaced by other party and those ads will be shown instead of of original ads.
Also, when the user tried to boot up his PC after removing this malware, the machine shuts down. And there was a blue screen after this.
According to user this malware is not detected by McAfee and also bypasses spybot search and destroy.
However no representative of Yahoo or Microsoft was not available for comment at the time of publication.
