{"id":549172,"date":"2006-06-14T10:08:49","date_gmt":"2006-06-14T10:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/549172-yahoo-quickly-steps-on-e-mail-worm.html"},"modified":"2006-06-14T10:08:49","modified_gmt":"2006-06-14T10:08:49","slug":"yahoo-quickly-steps-on-e-mail-worm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/549172-yahoo-quickly-steps-on-e-mail-worm.html","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo quickly steps on e-mail worm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;Once we were aware of it we put a solution in place,&quot; said Kelly Podboy, a spokeswoman for the Mountain View, California, company. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;It has been resolved. We don&#8217;t know how many users were impacted, but we believe it was a very small fraction.&quot; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">An estimated 238 million people worldwide use Yahoo&#8217;s free Web-based e-mail service, according to a recent industry analysis. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The Yamanner worm was apparently tailored to target Yahoo Mail users, according to Podboy. Yahoo learned of the worm on Monday and automatically distributed a protective software modification that day, Podboy said. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Yahoo advised its e-mail users to make have updated anti-virus software on their computers and to block any incoming e-mail from sender &quot;av3@yahoo.com.&quot; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;When we learn of e-mail abuse, such as a worm or other online threat, we take appropriate action,&quot; Podboy said. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;Yahoo continues to take a multi-faceted approach to protecting consumers against scams and online threats through the use of enhanced filtering and e-mail authentication technologies, industry collaboration, public policy efforts, and increasing consumer awareness.&quot; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><i>INet-Bridge<\/i> ||\u00a0 <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=45878\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><br \/>\u00a0 <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo discovered a malicious software &#8220;worm&#8221; designed to borrow into its free e-mail service and has neutralized the threat, the US Internet search giant said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}