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Old June 12th, 2006, 02:12 PM
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A new worm targeting Yahoo's Web-based e-mail service bent on collecting addresses for a spam database has been spotted in the wild, a security company warned Monday.

Until Yahoo patches the flaw, Symantec recommended users steer clear of the service or disable the browser's JavaScript capabilities before reading any Web mail.
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Old June 13th, 2006, 03:47 PM
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Yahoo says e-mail worm now contained

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SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news) said Tuesday it has contained a malicious program aimed at the millions of people who use its e-mail service, which ranks as the world's largest.
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ronjor - Thanks for the quick updates on this.
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This is what ePrompter is good for.
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