Omani whizkid develops new virus cleaner
MUSCAT — Tariq bin Hilal Al-Barwani,
Oman's top computer expert has developed a brand new virus cleaner to battle
the deadly virus that has established in Oman. Called the Yaha Virus, it has
affected many computer users already, and is continuing to spread wildly.
The virus cleaner can be downloaded for free from his personal website at
http://www.tariq.net. The virus arrives in an e-mail box with an attached file
under different subject heading with an (unknown) varied executable email
attachment (file) causing it difficult to identify. Once the file (virus) is
executed, it alters the system and changes some of the critical system
configuration file causing the system not to function properly, in addition,
disables the anti-virus cleaner (if not updated) from detecting future
viruses. The virus then uses its own SMTP engine to email itself to all
contacts in the windows address book, the MSN Messenger, the .NET Messenger,
the Yahoo Pager, and all files whose extensions contains the letters