I received an instant message with a link to http: //www2 .imward .com /m.php? m= travis @ travismick .com
I clicked it, and my Web Shield found a virus. It was the Win32:VB-KP trojan. The IM came through an IM from one of my friends, who wasn’t even online. My IM client is pidgin and I was using the MSN protocol. Is this a backdoor? I googled imward.com and got no results. Was my friends account compromised? If so, is it possible that my account can be compromised like this? I got rid of the virus, I just want to know how I got this link!
Please, do not post live links to infected sites or files… 
People could click on it and get infected. Although, in this case, Dr. Web says it’s clean…
Other answers, I can only speculate…
Oops. I figured that since i didn’t put it in url tags it wouldn’t make it a link. However, I am using avast home edition, and I received this virus alert by email a short time after it discovered the virus.
avast! [TRAVIS]: File “http:// www2. imward .com /m.php? m= travis @ travismick .com [PECompact]” is infected by “Win32:VB-KP [Trj]” virus.
“Resident protection (Web Shield)” task used
Version of current VPS file is 000749-1, 06/15/2007