Experts: Microsoft-Yahoo alliance is food for IM worms | CNET News.com

Experts: Microsoft-Yahoo alliance is food for IM worms | CNET News.com: "On Wednesday, Microsoft and Yahoo announced that they would make their instant-messaging services interoperable. By the middle of next year, users of both are expected to be able to exchange instant messages, see if their contacts are online, share emoticons, add friends from either service and make PC-to-PC voice calls.
But the partnership has a flipside, an instant-messaging security expert said. 'As Microsoft, Yahoo and others connect their global IM networks, IM worms will spread faster and attack a larger population of end-users,' said Jon Sakoda, chief technology officer at messaging security company IMlogic. "