Letters from NYC

Worm wriggles through unpatched Yahoo email flaw

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT CNET NEWS!

Updated on 6/13/06
Before opening your email program, client, or browser to check your email Please make sure you update your anti-virus software first so that you can catch this worm. Please note, If you're a yahoo messenger or music subscriber it's also attempting to come in through the launch applications in those programs. Luckily, I always update my anti-virus before surfing or opening up my email application. Although I've got the Yahoo email beta the worm still tried coming in through a friend's email who unkowingly had been infected, and through my Yahoo Music Launch program.

If you're viewing this please make sure you update your anti-virus before surfing any longer, because if you get it, you'll definitely pass it ON to everyone in your address list as this worm goes behind the scenes to copy contacts, without your awareness, by sending email messages out with cloned copies of your signature info as if they were from you.

So be a good friend/neighbor and clean yourself up before coming over and visiting, because if you do send me the virus, I will out you publicly even if I don't get infected. Hopefully the embarassment alone will help become more vigilant.

Thanks Harvey, for posting this major virus alert & links to Cnet, for his readers to see it & take action.!

Posted by Michele at June 12, 2006 04:27 PM