INSTANT MESSAGING
Instant messaging (IM) is a real time text based communication between two or more people connected over the network like Internet. Instant message became most popular with this you can interact with people in a real time and you can keep the list of family and friends on your contact list and can communicate until the person is online .There are many instant service providers like AOL, Yahoo messenger, Google Talk and many more.
RISKS INVOLVED IN IM
Hackers constantly access instant messages and try to deliver malicious codes through the instant message and the code may contain a virus, Trojan, and spyware and if you click on the filethecode will enter your system and within seconds it infects the system.
SPIM
Spim is a short form of spam over instant messaging, it uses IM platforms to send spam messages over IM. Like e-mail spam messages, a spim message also
contains advertisements. It generally contains web links, by clicking on those links malicious code enters into your PC. Generally, it happens in real time and we need to stop the work and deal with spim as the IM window pop-ups, in the e-mail we have time to delete and we can delete all spam at a time, or we can scan before opening any attachments. This cannot be done in IM.
Tip: Avoid opening attachments and links in IM