A new worm has hit the streets, and it’s a double-edged worm. The Lebreat worm, which is mailing itself around calling itself “Breatle AntiVirus” is both a network worm and a mass-e-mail worm. It’s two, two, two worms in one.

According to security firm F-Secure, once Lebreat (or “Breatle,” or even “Reatle”) is installed by an unsuspecting Windows PC user, it both opens a backdoor to the system through which hackers can take control of the PC, and it also installs mass e-mailing software, and launches a DoS (denial of service) attack against security company Symantec, as well as harvesting all available e-mail addresses on the host system and mailing itself out to them. Friendly little thing, isn’t it?

According to F-Secure, “This virus claims to be ‘Breatle AntiVirus v1.0,’ and it spreads over both e-mail and network vulnerabilities.”

Lebreat takes advantage of…

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