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

Re:Makes you wonder.

[Tim C]

Eh? The worm itself (at least from the description here) sounds relatively serious; the 2 would seem rather low, until you factor in that the company doing the rating is the same company that's currently failing to stop it.