Virus sending IM from phone?

[brandyrich]

Originally my facebook friends were recieving an IM from me that said:
hi got a min?

and then when the friend would respond it would say:
I want you to try something real quick

They would respond again and it would say:

ok, try this test and see what you get.. i can't get over like a 110, its pathetic hemanthsraj@gmail.com:hcl123

and that was all it says. Now it is sending them to my gmail contacts. The only place this could have originated from that I can think of is my phone. There are no viruses on my computers. Has anyone else seen this? I am not sure what app would have caused it or how to get rid of it.

 

[HuffPCair]

What are you using to scan for virus'? I would suggest Avast free its been proven to be one of the best. The only way you have a virus on your phone is if you yourself gave something permissions.

I would go over your email account and make sure you havent looked at something or if you have filled something out on the ineternet.

 

[hookbill]

You don't need virus protection. There are no viruses to protect against and anything you put on your phone will be a resource hog.

 

[joeybarclay]

Im not sure about you but I know that a good amount of my friends on Facebook are robots trying to send me to sites with viruses.

 

[Martin030908]

my money is on it being a FB virus... if you have FB contacts linked to your phone it probably got to your gmail contacts that way.

*DroidForums app DOES*

 

[HuffPCair]

Im not sure about you but I know that a good amount of my friends on Facebook are robots trying to send me to sites with viruses.

So you keep them to look cool? I will never understand why having a bunch of people on a friends list is important to people.

 

[obxsalvo]

I have seen scams like this on Facebook before. Where it ask you to respond to a question from one of your friends and when one tries then the so called virus gets their info. and then crazy things starts happening. With that being said I don't click on a site sent from one of my friends, I send them a message and ask what it is. So far a few have said they never sent it and have no clue how it got sent from them

 

[joeybarclay]

Im not sure about you but I know that a good amount of my friends on Facebook are robots trying to send me to sites with viruses.

So you keep them to look cool? I will never understand why having a bunch of people on a friends list is important to people.

Um no I keep them there because the users still use there files and I have the contact info synced to my phone. Besides im on my phone and they cant send me im's there

 

[brandyrich]

I did not click any links, i changed my fb password and it started happening to my gmail contacts after that.

 

[brandyrich]

Im not sure about you but I know that a good amount of my friends on Facebook are robots trying to send me to sites with viruses.

All of my FB friends are real people. I only add the people I know.

 

[joeybarclay]

So are mine they just started to get possessed.