Pressure

I have not posted in a while but I was moved to write about pressure by this story. Many of us have been away from home and know the feelings of lonelyness that override the feeling of adventure. Those that keep the fear inside them it eats them up and in this case may have been a factor in pushing him over the edge. My son, who is in Korea at Camp Carroll, is also one of those introverted people and I worry about him. I know he has some friends (drinking buddies) but will not push out and try to discover new things unless pushed. Hopefully because he is in the Army they will help bring him out of his shell although the year in Iraq did help and damage that at the same time. I think he is lucky as he has internet & a phone in his room and unlike others he has family there as my sister in law lives out side of Seoul and my wife has several nephews but communication is not working well at the moment. For those of you who know people that are shy, be the friend they need and try to help them by being a friend but in the end it is their choice and life.

Yahoo Mail Worm Harvesting Addresses

Worth a warning!
Courtesy of TechWeb
JUNE 12, 2006 A new worm targeting Yahoo's Web-based e-mail service bent on collecting addresses for a spam database has been spotted in the wild, a security company warned Monday.
The "Yamanner" worm exploits a JavaScript vulnerability in Yahoo's Web mail, Cupertino, Calif. security specialist Symantec said in a Monday morning warning to customers of its DeepSight Threat Management System. Yamanner is spreading, added Symantec, which has assigned the threat a "2" in its 1 through 5 rating system.
The worm targets addresses with the "yahoo.com" and "yahoogroups.com" domains, and arrives as an HTML message containing JavaScript. As soon as the recipient views the message, the script automatically runs to spread the worm to other users in the Yahoo address book. The message will have a From" address of av3@yahoo.com and a Subject: of "New Graphic Site."
"Harvested addresses from the address book are then submitted to a remote URL, which is likely to be used for a spam database," noted Symantec in its alert.
Yamanner won't execute on the newest Yahoo Mail Beta.
Until Yahoo patches the flaw, Symantec recommended users steer clear of the service or disable the browser's JavaScript capabilities before reading any Web mail.