Virus Alert - Attention Yahoo! Mail Users

[T-D-C]

JS.Yamanner@m is a worm that is written in JavaScript. It exploits a vulnerability in the Yahoo email service to send a copy of itself to the user's Yahoo email contacts.

More information can be found below

http://securityresponse.symantec.com...amanner@m.html

JS.Yamanner@m performs the following actions:

Arrives on the compromised computer as an HTML email containing Javascript. The email may have the following characteristics:

From: Varies
Subject: New Graphic Site
Message body: Note: forwarded message attached.

Once the email is opened the worm exploits a vulnerability in the Yahoo email service to run a script.

Sends a copy of itself to certain email addresses gathered from the Yahoo email folders.

Targets email addresses from the @yahoo.com and? @yahoogroups.com domains.

Contacts the following URL:

[http://]www.av3.net/index.htm

Sends a list of email addresses gathered to the above URL.


Cheers!

[ 06-12-2006, 09:05 PM: Message edited by: T-D-C ]