Title: Hawawi

Type: Worms

Remove Hawawi. Removal instructions

Severity scale:

(69 / 100)

Hawawi is a dangerous Internet worm that spreads by e-mail, through file sharing networks and using several instant messengers. Once executed, the parasite destroys all the video, music and programming files, archives, various documents, databases and web pages it founds in the system. Hawawi uses its own mail server to send e-mails with infected attachments to multiple addresses. It uses ICQ, Yahoo Messenger and PalTalk applications to distribute its copies to all the user's contacts. The worm creates infected files with meaningful names and shares them using KaZaA peer-to-peer program. Hawawi automatically runs on every Windows startup.

Hawawi properties:
• Hides from the user
• Stays resident in background

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Hawawi manual removal:

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Kill processes:
explore.exe, media player.exe, sys32.exe

HELP:
how to kill malicious processes

Delete registry values:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\ioadqm
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\explore

HELP:
how to remove registry entries

Delete files:
explore.exe, media player.exe, sys32.exe, hawawi.pif, hawa.pif, smtpmailer.dll, smtp.ocx

HELP:
how to remove harmful files

Misc:
The parasite may install files with random names.

hawawi.pif and hawa.pif are typical filenames of infected e-mail attachments.

Most Hawawi files can be found in the default system directory C:\Windows\System, C:\Windows\System32 or C:\Winnt\System32.

Information added: 2004-03-19 10:00:00
Information updated: 2005-09-03 07:21:41

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