Question: Spam New Graphic site how does it effect me once opened? Is this a virus? a worm? once I open the email and it copied my email address book, what else does it do?

Answer: It only affect yahoo mail users.  Delete it without trying to open it.  Just opening it will get you infected.  It is a spammer virus designed to harvest email addresses.  The email has the following attributes:\n\nFrom: {last victim}\nSubject: New Graphic Site\nMessage body: Note: forwarded message attached.\n\nTo clean your system, shut down your browser.  Then restart and erase all your cached files. In IE, go to TOOLS->INTERNET OPTIONS then click DELETE FILES under the Temporary Internet Files Section.  Restart the browser again.\n\nThe virus is a javascript based virus so it will affect ALL computers including MACs and LINUX boxes.  It is a worm that goes by the names JS/Yamanner@MM [McAfee], JS_YAMANER.A [Trend Micro], and JS.Yamanner@m[Symantec].\n\nOnce it runs, the virus scans all your yahoo mail folders for email addresses.  It sends all email addresses it finds to the spammer at the following web site "www.av3.net/index.htm" (don't go there or you'll be infected).  Then it resends itself to all yahoo.com and yahoogroups.com email addresses that it found.\n\nAgain, if you see a message with the subject "New Graphic Site" in your email, don't try to read it or else you will be infected.
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