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Posted by wayne on June 13, 2006, 9:08 pm
this virus is new type in that no action is required. It was aimed at
yahoo mail only. being a new type it was unknown. Most of the viruses
are the same. This one is different While I have run a couple of scan
s that came out clean my computer did send out spam to a yahoo group
that I belong to. I am still not sure if my computer is infected or
not.
Cue wrote:
>
> > > I for one say thank you I actually did receive this email and
> > > forwarded it on to yahoo abuse but did not realize it was a
> > > virus? As for LOW I think it will be going higher!
>
> I get a number of virus-laden emails every month, but have yet to have
> one infect the computer. I practice "safe computing" in a variety of
> commonly known ways.
>
> If I know for sure who sent me the virus, I email them and warn them.
> But I don't go posting mass virus warnings on Usenet or sending around
> lurid emails containing virus warnings.
>
> You say you got this virus sent to you. Did your computer get
> infected? Apparently not. But as a result of this warning, now you
> know that the email contained a virus. Has this changed your
> computing? Have you gained anything by knowing? What if you had known
> that the email contained a virus? Would you have done anything
> differently?
>
> Why pick this virus? Since May 14 there have been 100 new viruses
> reported. What if I started sending you a warning email for each one
> of them and posting the warnings to alt.home.repair (don't worry, I
> won't)? That would be pretty annoying, wouldn't it, and it would do
> nothing to prevent you from receiving any of the 100 viruses.
>
> Viruses can be quite destructive and everyone needs to run antivirus
> programs, disable HTML emails, use a text-based newsreader, keep virus
> definitions up to date, and apply all operating system patches. But
> posting "warnings" accomplishes little or nothing.
>
> > >
> > > Cue wrote:
> > >
> > | > On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 18:55:06 GMT, "Stormin Mormon"
> > | >
> > | > > >
> > | > > > Dear Folks,
> > | > > > There is a virus making the rounds which has been
> > sending a | > > > subject line "new graphic site". From what I
> > can tell, the | > > > virus has been infecting computers across
> > the world. | >
> > | > Symantec says this virus, called "JS.Yamanner@m" is very low
> > level, | > fewer than 50 infections, easy to remove, and has a
> > geographical | > distribution level of "low."
> > | >
> > | > Why pick this virus out of the thousands currently
> > circulating? Why | > post it in a newsgroup? I suppose you are
> > also sending it around to | > all your friends, most of whom will
> > do nothing. | >
> > | > A good policy is to tend to your own computer's virus
> > protection and | > stop sending around panic emails to others. It
> > is a waste of time and | > mildly annoying.
> > | >
> > | > Those who run antivirus programs will not be affected anyway,
> > and | > those who don't won't do anything.
> > | >
> > | > "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."
> > | >
> > | >
> > | > > > The emails you get in your box are NOT from the
> > person in | > > > the "from" line. As with so many other virus,
> > they copy one | > > > email adress from the infected drive, and
> > then spamblast the | > > > virus out to everyone they can find.
> > Using a random email | > > > adress as the "from" line, who then
> > gets blamed. | > > > Today I've gotten emails containing
> > photos atached "pubic | > > > region nerves" and a few other
> > JPEG files. Remember Klez about | > > > two years ago? Had been
> > sending out random files from peoples | > > > drives. Well, this
> > one appears to be much the same. | > > > I do apologize
> > for any strange emails which "appear" to | > > > be from this
> > adress. Even though they would be spoofed. | > > > Please, folks,
> > run your virus scanner. Norton and the other big | > > > guys
> > have a patch for the new virus. | > > >
> > | > > > --
> > | > > >
> > | > > > Christopher A. Young
> > | > > > You can't shout down a troll.
> > | > > > You have to starve them.
> > | > > > .
> > | > > >
> > | > > >
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