There is some chance that I’ve opened a Yahoo! email with the “New Graphic Site” tag. I don’t think so, but it’s possible. It’s a worm called JS.Yamanner or something like that. I almost never use my Yahoo email and sometimes I just go through the list of incoming deleting one at a time. I think I remember seeing that tag, but I can’t be sure since it would have been in a basket of spam. In all events, please scan your computers since the worm if I’ve got it would go to my address book.
I apologize for any inconvenience. Here’s the story:
Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO – news), the world’s largest provider of e-mail services, said on Monday that a software virus aimed at Yahoo Mail users had infected “a very small fraction” of its base of more than 200 million accounts.
The e-mail virus, or worm, has been dubbed Yamanner and landed in Yahoo mailboxes bearing the headline “New Graphic Site.” Once opened, the message infects the computer and spreads to other users listed in Yahoo users’ e-mail address books, security experts said.
The e-mail containing the virus need only be opened — in contrast to most worms that are hidden in attachments and require users to take an additional step — to release the virus, according to computer security site Symantec Corp..
The Sunnyvale, California-based company advised users to update virus and firewall software on their computers and to block any e-mail sent from the address “[email protected].”