A new Yahoo! IM virus making rounds?

I intended this to be a statement rather than a question, but I find that I am not an authority on these subjects so I put it up as a question to the security community in general and the security researchers in particular. A couple of days back I received an instant message from one of my friends whom I trust explicitly. The link itself was suspicious but I thought that was her new website and photos so I naively clicked it.

It was a geocities web address which is a free web page hosting site. Now my computer is infected and at least two other people (my friends) have contacted me asking whether I sent a link to them on Yahoo! messenger. I don't know what it does or whether it is a virus at all or not. Or maybe it just harvests contacts and from my messenger and sends IM randomly (for something like a click fraud).

The web site address looks mighty suspicious and almost certainly pornographic but it is not. It points to a non-existant web page and geocities informs you that the page does not exist.

I am certain that I am infected by either a virus (which the latest McAfee signature does not detect) or spyware. I am not sure yet. I will run Anti-spyware tools and find out. But if it is a key stoke capture kind of malware, I have to be extra careful. Till now I have found out the following links that are rogue. Please do not click on any of these. I will disable the links, but do not copy paste them in your browser.

• www.geocities.com/xx_lick.me_xx
• www.geocities.com/lloxloxl_amber.taylor_loxloxll