YAHA family extended to....................

Hi all,

In my virusalert newletter today i received notification that the YAHA family has exended with W32.Yaha.T@mm.

W32.Yaha.T@mm:

Is a worm that is a variant of W32.Yaha.J@mm.
Terminates some antivirus and firewall processes.
Uses its own SMTP engine to email itself to all the contacts in the Windows Address Book, MSN Messenger, .NET Messenger, Yahoo Pager, and in all the files whose extensions contain the letters HT.

The email message has a randomly chosen subject line, message, and attachment name. The attachment will have a .com, .exe, or .scr file extension.

This threat is written in the Microsoft C++ language and is compressed with FSG.


Also Known As: I-Worm.Lentis.gen [KAV], W32/Yaha.t@MM [McAfee], W32/Yaha-T [Sophos]
Type: Worm
Infection Length: 51,424 bytes
Systems Affected: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Me



Hope we can expect an virus update soon

Be ware all,

rgds,
Martin

 

Hi Martin,

more info needed - sent you an IM.

Thx.,

jan

 

Hi Jan,

Check out this link for more info:

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.yaha.t@mm.html

rgds,
Martin