RE: Virus? Trojan?

From: James C Slora Jr <Jim.Slora(at)phra.com>
Date: Fri Jan 10 2003 - 10:39:45 EST

David Gillett wrote Monday, December 30, 2002 5:03 PM

> So far today, I've received two email messages from

> which, apparently, claimed in its HELO message to *be*
> our local MX (which of course was who it was talking TO).
> Sounds to me like a bug in the sending software.

> The other thing these messages had in common was a
> 33KB .scr ("screen saver") executable attachment.
> Norton doesn't recognize this as a known threat, but
> I don't want to be the first to learn the hard way what
> it does.

I've gotten 4 more Yaha-M-infected messages from this same source today. I received a few at around the same time you did, starting December 31 when Yaha-M had not yet been listed. The sender must have one of the first infected computers. They may be a member of this list or someone who visits the list archives.

Since the infections are still coming I've notified the administrator of zeelandnet.nl - hopefully they will hunt the user down and help them clear the infection.

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