Computer virus targets Yahoo email users

Computer virus targets Yahoo email users
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — A computer virus attacked users of Yahoo Inc.’s (YHOO) email service Monday, spreading from one computer to another by exploiting a programming flaw in Yahoo’s Web-based email service.

Yahoo, world’s most popular e-mail, hit by worm (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Yahoo, world’s most popular e-mail, hit by worm (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Yahoo Inc., the world’s largest provider of e-mail services, said on Monday that a software virus aimed at Yahoo Mail users had infected “a very small fraction” of its base of more than 200 million accounts.