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How does yahoo e-mail account get infected by virus?

How does Yahoo email account get infected by virus?

  • Any one here can explain to me how does yahoo email a/c get infected by virus and mails get automatically sent to addresses? I have this doubt as Yahoo email account is a web based account which is different from outlook so how does the virus attack work? thanks for your advice.

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    The account itself does not get infected. However, your computer can get infected. The virus can then snarf any e-mail addresses it can find (including those in your Yahoo! contacts) and sends itself to them. Also, once a worm exploited a vulnerability in Yahoo! mail and spread to other users when you just read the infected e-mail - but Yahoo! fixed the vulnerabiloity and killed the worm in a matter of hours.

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By spam, or emails with virus attachments that enter your computer if you open them.

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