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Microsoft Security Intelligence
Published Jun 13, 2005 | Updated Sep 15, 2017

Win32/Yaha

Detected by Microsoft Defender Antivirus

Aliases: W32/Yaha@MM (McAfee) W32.Yaha@mm (Symantec) WORM_YAHA.GEN (Trend Micro)

Summary

Windows Defender Antivirus detects and removes this threat.
 
Win32/Yaha is a family of mass-mailing network worms that targets certain versions of Microsoft Windows. The worm spreads primarily by sending a copy of itself as an attachment to e-mail addresses gathered from an infected computer. It can also spread through mapped drives and writeable network shares. The worm can terminate security-related processes and conduct denial of service (DoS) attacks against certain Web sites.

Use the following free Microsoft software to detect and remove this threat:

You should also run a full scan. A full scan might find hidden malware.

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If you’re using Windows XP, see our Windows XP end of support page.

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