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Yahoo Fixes Bug
By CXOtoday Staff
Mumbai, Jun 16, 2006

Yahoo Inc, which offers Yahoo! mail has announced that it has managed to contain the malicious program aimed at its e-mail service users.

The javaScript worm - JS.Yamanner@m, exploited an unlatched vulnerability in Yahoo!'s email program that enabled normally blocked scripts embedded in HTML e-mails to be run by the user's browser.

Unlike other worms, it did not require any attachment to be opened, but spread itself to the contacts in the address book just at the instance of the e-mail being opened. It also sent these e-mail addresses to a remote server on the Internet, and directed the user's browser to the URL www.av3.net/index.htm.

Only users with a @yahoo.com or @yahoogroups.com e-mail address are susceptible and Yahoo! Mail Beta users seem unaffected by JS.Yamanner.

The mail itself is easy enough to identify, since it is spoofed to appear sent from e-mail address av3@yahoo.com, the subject is 'New Graphic Site' and says 'this is test' in its body.

As a precaution against variations on the Yamanner worm, Yahoo has advised its e-mail users to update their antivirus programs and block all incoming correspondence from av3@yahoo.com.

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	please verify my id - indrajeet none indore	02/09/07 01:33 PM Reply

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	i also seem to be infected.the messenger screen opes and says i'm signing in,then it won't open.i suspect one of your competitors.mine was working til 6/26/07. - jim schaefer n/a otis,oregon 97368	27/06/07 09:52 PM Reply

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	I do nogt know where my e-mail'addresses are? I was not warned of a virus by Yahoo! - Antonio Rovira Private citizen Merritt Island, Florida	30/08/06 07:43 AM Reply

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