Worm Wriggles Through Yahoo! Mail Flaw

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday June 13, 2006 @02:03AM from the descriptive-imagery dept.

Jasen Bell writes to mention a ZDNet article about a clever new worm affecting users of Yahoo!'s email service. The virus uses a flaw in JavaScript to infect a computer when an email is opened from the user's web-based mail. From the article: "The worm, which was spotted in the wild early this morning, has hit the remote server more than 100,000 times, forwarding Yahoo e-mail addresses harvested from unsuspecting users, Turner said. Although the worm is spreading quickly, and no patch has been issued, Symantec is rating the threat a '2.' The security vendor uses a 1-to-5 rating system, with '5' as its most severe category."

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Medireview virus attacks yahoo. by leuk_he · 2006-06-13 02:14 · Score: 4, Interesting

I thought the security of yahoo would have captured a old javascript virus by now. Bu i do not understand: how can this javascript break out the browsers? isn't yahoo just a webmail website? then how would the local pc be affected? why would you have to scan your pc as symantic tells you?

Ok, the virus can send a lot of e-mails and break the yahoo mail system. or si there something about yahoo mail i do not understand?