Hotmail blindsided by Yaha-E virus

Ahh, we were sent this yesterday and I decided not to post it, MS Bashing you see ;)

Anyway after consideration and the fact that The Reg has decided to run it I have gone back on my initial thought. Microsoft is pushing the focus towards security and seeing as MSN Hotmail has become a pay service to many users it is valid. Thanks Qba73 for sending it in.

The anti-virus protection used by Microsoft's Hotmail service hasn't been updated to protect users against the prolific Yaha-E virus.

The McAfee virus scanning engine used by Hotmail does not stop users either sending or receiving the bug, which has become a major nuisance for Internet users.

The McAfee virus scanner (Security Services for MSN) used by the revamped Hotmail blocks earlier viruses, such as the Anna Kournikova worm, but not Yaha-E. We understand it is MSN who is most at fault here, for not updating virus definition files to detect a bug, which lest we forget, is now 11 days old.

Alex Shipp, a senior anti-virus technologist at MessageLabs, a managed services firm which scans its users email for malicious code, has confirmed the problem. Updated versions of McAfee's virus scanning software will block the bug, he notes.

View: info on Yaha-E virus @ F-Secure