mark2 Posted January 1, 2003 Report Share Posted January 1, 2003 New Virus on the looseThe virus, called Yaha.K, is a mass mailing worm affecting computers running Windows which first appeared on 21 December. Do not open any e-mails which have attachments ending with .scr, .exe and .com. 'I Love You' Yaha.K is a new version of the Yaha worm which first appeared in February. It is relatively harmless, compared to more destructive viruses. It can compromise a computer's security settings by stopping anti-virus programs and shutting down firewalls. The new variant looks for e-mail addresses in Windows Address Book and sends itself to all the addresses it finds. Norton already released a live update for this one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvw Posted January 1, 2003 Report Share Posted January 1, 2003 Recent AVG updates include: Update 435 available. Added detection of I-Worm/Yaha.L, Worm/Tulu and new variants of I-Worm/Duksten. - December 30, 2002 - Update 434 available. Added detection of new virus I-Worm/Yaha.K. - December 25, 2002 - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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