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Wednesday, May 24, 2006

IM Worm Targets Yahoo Users

A worm dubbed yhoo32.explr is spreading across Yahoo's IM network. It forwards itself using the contact lists of people whose computers have already been infected. If installed it hijacks the browser home page steering the users to an evil site that attempts to load spyware.

Posted by Matthew Carrick at 1:12.38 PM EDT | Permanent Link
| Categories: Adware/Spyware Alerts, Alternative Applications, Instant Messaging, Security Alerts, Virus-Trojan-Worm Alerts