On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:45:24 -0500, "wayne" 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"
| wrote:
|
|
| 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.
| .
|
|