Countless Yahoo.com users are at risk of dangerous internet virus

The Dhaka Times Desk The international media Washington Post claimed in a report that thousands of Yahoo.com users are at risk of a dangerous virus.

নেদারল্যান্ড ভিত্তিক আইটি প্রতিষ্ঠান Fox-IT wrote that it জানিয়েছে, ” আমাদের কিছু ক্লায়েন্টদের তথ্য পর্যালোচনা করে দেখতে পেয়েছি, তাঁরা ইয়াহু ডট কম ব্যবহারকরার পর তাদেরকে ইয়াহু অ্যাডস থেকে কিছু অ্যাড দেখানো হয় যা প্রকৃত পক্ষে ads.yahoo.com থেকেই এসেছে, তবে এসব অ্যাডসে ভয়াবহ ভাইরাসের অস্তিত্ব পাওয়া গেছে।

Meanwhile, Ashkan Soltani, an Internet security expert and assistant to the Washington Post, said that some circles are using Yahoo ads on Yahoo servers to spread viruses, which are not caught by the Yahoo filter because they are ordinary ads! The point here is that these viruses have emerged as a particular threat to Java platform systems. Java-based systems are particularly vulnerable in this regard.

So far, Yahoo.com, which is number 4 in international visitor popularity, has not commented or responded to this issue. Currently, about 280 million users are using the virtual Yahoo, most of them are now under special virus threat. Experts said that this virus risk in Yahoo basically started from December 30.

A Yahoo user's system may be attacked by a virus as shown in the figure below:

Source: The TechJournal