Yaha Virus Variant Heats Up
News A new virus, which is believed to be a variant of the Yaha virus, has proven contagious and is infecting thousands of computers worldwide. The virus, dubbed W32/Yaha.M, has seen its numbers explode with over 7,000 being stopped by MessageLabs on...
[January 2, 2003, 6:45]
Antivirus Virus On The Loose
News For example, tech security companies are warning of a new virus designed to attack a version of the already-existing Yaha virus. The Sahay virus also checks the computer for characteristics of the W32.Yaha family of worms, and if any are found...
[January 20, 2003, 9:23]
Antivirus Firms Rebut Naming Accusations
News The charges were made in a report published by email services company MessageLabs, which claims that the recent release of three different strains of the Yaha virus in the space of 11 days, causing havoc with the naming conventions used by the...
[January 9, 2003, 10:06]
Klez Still Surfing The Virus Top Ten
News The rest of the list comprised the 'usual suspects' -- viruses which have been dogging mail servers and administrators for months, such as Yaha, Bugbear and various variants of some of the big hitters of the malware world.
[March 3, 2003, 16:04]
Klez Still Dominates The Virus Top 10
News W32/Yaha-E (Yaha variant) 2.9 per cent W32/Yaha-K (Yaha variant) 2.9 per cent Yet again Klez was the most common source of virus reports during the month of April, as measured by anti-virus firm Sophos.
[April 30, 2003, 13:31]
Email Viruses Show Dramatic Rise
News Yaha.E came second with 1.1 million copies, then it was Bugbear.A with 842,333, Klez.E with 380,937 and SirCam.A with 309,832. Klez could only reach one in every 169 even at its peak, while Yaha never rose above one every 268, said MessageLabs.
[December 16, 2002, 10:19]
Lovgate Worm's Got A Hold On PCs
News Two other viruses, Sobig and Yaha, are currently in the No.and No.slots on MessageLabs' list of most prevalent intercepted code. A mass-mailing computer virus compromised a moderate number of PCs worldwide on Monday, installing a Trojan horse...
[February 25, 2003, 9:09]
Third Sobig Worm Strikes, And More May Follow
News Sobig.C on Monday rose to the No.rank in Messagelabs' list of virus threats, although it is far behind the year-old W32/Yaha.E-mm, in the top spot, which infected about 63,000 emails over the past weekend alone.
[June 2, 2003, 15:28]
Linux Servers 'attacked More Often'
Talkback London, UK - 19 February 2004, 13:30 GMT - mi2g Intelligence Unit data shows that partially as a result of the growth of the MyDoom family of malware, lingering effects of Mimail, Dumaru, Sobig, Swen, Klez, Sober, Yaha, BugBear and Fizzer, and...
[February 20, 2004, 19:14]
Mimail Worm Tops Virus Chart
News These figures put Mimail at the top of MessageLabs' virus charts, ahead of Klez and Yaha. A new Windows mass-mailing virus, which disguises itself as a file sent by a computer user's network administrator, began infecting systems on Friday and...
[August 4, 2003, 8:40]
