Worm Wriggles Through Yahoo! Mail Flaw

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."

Comments

"This worm is a 2."

[Evanisincontrol]

What does that mean? Does that mean that the amount of damage caused by the worm is a 2 out of 5? Or that the chance of infection is 40%? Or that the worm did very poorly in the olympics?

A little more description is needed here.

I thought...

[Salk]

... 2 was hand on bosom outside shirt