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Worm Wriggles Through Yahoo! Mail Flaw

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. "This worm is a 2." by Evanisincontrol · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.

  2. that's nothing by mgabrys_sf · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Windows Vista runs on the Mac - according to Microsoft's own website!

    http://tech.msn.com/business/default.aspx

    Clearly seen - the Apple Display, and the Mac keyboard. Running VISTA - wow!

  3. mmod 0p by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Culture of abuSe that comprise parts. The cuurent be on a wrong

  4. I thought... by Salk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... 2 was hand on bosom outside shirt