Formal Announcement of the Microsoft Instant Messenger and Yahoo IM Partnership comes from Yahoo and Microsoft.

Yahoo IM and MSN Instant Messenger are about to start talking to each other, so that users of one service can easily chat with their friends on the other service.

Mepe.A is an instant messaging worm which says “te mandaron un recado conmigo” (I’ve been asked to give you a message), but which really gives you an infection instead.

A Korean man has hung himself while video chatting with his girlfriend. After the two got into an online argument, police say, the young man suddenly got up, and hung himself while his girlfriend was watching.

Google Talk is Coming! According to News Reports, Google is launching a new instant messenger service, called Google Talk, some time this week. Says the LA Times, “According to a person who has seen the service, Google plans to let users chat using more than just their keyboards. Like similar…

A just-released study shows that nearly 90% of all teenagers are now online, and use email and other Internet programs on a regular basis. However, they also see email as something you use with old people, like parents and teachers. The method of choice for communication with friends is instant messenger.

The Kirvo Trojan visits you via Instant Messenger, blazing a trail so that Spybot can then install itself on your system. And once you have a Spybot infestation, all bets are off.

With the release of the new AIM Fight, Aunty Spam thought that it would be fun to survey folks to see what their AIM Fight scores are. So, what is your AIM Fight score? Let us know by filling out our AIM Fight Score Survey Get New Internet Patrol Articles…

With apologies to John “Bluto” Blutarsky, “AIM Fight!” What the heck is “AIM Fight?”, we can already hear our readers scratching their collective heads. Well, you know all of those 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon friend-of-a-friend sites which have become so popular (or reviled, depending on where you stand) over…

Have you ever wondered who is watching you when you are on AOL Instant Messenger (AIM)? Who is reading your profile, and checking you out? Well, wonder no more, because Justin Nolan, the body behind the relatively new ConnectedMobiles.com, has written Aimtrac, just for you! Says Justin, an apparently bored…

The newest AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) worm, discovered today, causes targetted AIM users to receive a message, ostensibly from a buddy, which says “LOL, LOOK AT HIM”, and containing a link to a file called “picture.pif”. This worm is considered to be a variation of the Opanki worm. However, that…

AOL’s previously announced Instant Messenger-based AIM Mail email system is now a reality. Windows users who upgrade to the new AIM version 5.9 will have access to the new web-mail service, which is one of the first of its kind to integrate instant messenger and email service. As Aunty has…

A newly discovered worm dubbed “Gpic.aol” and being transported via AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) arrives as an instant message along the lines of “damn this looks just like me lol” and proffering a link which claims to be a link to pictures.google.com However, as soon as the unwitting recipient clicks…

With the introduction of its new AIM Mail service, Internet giant America Online (AOL) has jumped on the “free webmail with 2 gigabytes of storage” bandwagon, but with an added twist: the new service is tied in to your AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) account. AOL Instant Messenger Mail (AIM Mail…

A new virus aimed (no pun intended) at AOL Instant Messenger Windows users has been discovered this week. It will appear to come from one of your buddies, with a message of “hey check this out!”, along with a link to “http://adwordsvideo.com/gallery/pictures.php”. It sure looks like a website link, doesn’t…