Sophos

W32/Yosenio-A

Aliases
  • Email-Worm.Win32.Yosenio.a
  • W32/Yosenio.A
  • W32/Yesenio.worm.gen
  • WORM_YESENIA.A
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
How it spreads
  • Email attachments
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Drops more malware
Protection available since 6 April 2005 20:41:19 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

W32/Yosenio-A is a mass-mailing worm that also drops an overwriting virus and an Office macro virus.

Dropped files are detected as VBS/Yosenio-A and XM97/Yosenio-A. Please see the descriptions for those viruses for further information.

W32/Yosenio-A may display the following fake message text:

Zip file is damaged, truncated, or has been changed sinced it was created.
If you downloaded this file, try downloading again

W32/Yosenio-A sends itself to other users by email as an attachment.

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