[Ansteorra] New Graphic site virus....

[Michael Silverhands]

--- Muiriath ingen Carthaig <ldy_muiriath at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> This is a different kind of worm, you do not have to
> open an attachment, just the e-mail itself.
> This is what the McAfee site says about it :
> 
> This threat attempts to spread via email as embedded
> JavaScript (there is no email attachment) and harvests
> Yahoo related addresses from the victim's profile. 
> Infectious messages may appear as follows:
> 
> Subject: New Graphic Site
> Body: Note: forwarded message attached.
> 
> Reading such an infectious message via Yahoo! Mail can
> result in execution of the virus code.
> 
> http://vil.nai.com/vil/Content/v_139913.htm
> 
> Muiriath
> 

Thanks for the clarification, Muiriath.

Michael