there are quite a few worms that target yahoo messenger at the moment, most will send out random IM's to your friends with urls, or change your current status message along with a clickable url, you will need to clearly identify which one you have acquired and it's quite a mission to work this out as currently installed virus scanners are often a target (being disabled by the worm) so a clean bill of health from your antivirus program might in fact be incorrect. If you suspect this is the case online scanner (temporarily disable your currently installed one first though)...
Trend http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecal...
BitDefender http://www.bitdefender.com/scan8/
F-Secure http://support.f-secure.com/enu/home/ols...
Panda http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/ac...
just follow the prompts for the one you decide to use and pay close attention to the worm/trojan and variant details the scanner will provide as if one of the system files is currently in use it will be unable to be removed and you may have to download additional programs and / or follow details instructions (which they will provide) from safe mode
there are more are listed in http://www.wackyb.co.nz/vb/showthread.ph... if the above aren't suitable :)
the one causing the most grief at the moment is...
WORM_SOHANAD.I (and variants of)
which gives status messages and sends random IM's to friends with links like...
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