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W32/Yaha-Y

Dec 10, 2003 12:25AM PST

Aliases
WORM_YAHA.AF, W32/Yaha.y@MM, W32.Yaha.AF@mm

Type
Win32 worm

Description
W32/Yaha-Y is a worm which spreads by copying itself to network shares and by emailing itself to addresses found within files and registry entries on the local computer.
The email subject line, message text and attachment filename are randomly selected from internal lists. Example emails are as follows:

Attached File: Fixblastz.com
Subject line: Fix for the latest W32/Blaster.Z
Message text: Dear customer, We are enclosing Fix for W32.Blaster.Z as per your request.


Read more: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32yahay.html

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