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Jun 6, 2003, 11:38am

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** VIRUS ALERT - W32/Bugbear.b at MM **
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A new variant of the Bugbear virus, W32/Bugbear.b at MM is a
HIGH RISK mass-mailing worm that contains numerous malicious
elements, including a keylogger, network share propagator,
remote access trojan, polymorphic parasitic file infector
and terminator of security software.

Creating privacy and security concerns for consumers, these
elements may allow a remote attacker to access an infected
PC and log all keystrokes, including passwords and personal
information. It also mass-mails itself without the user's
knowledge, spreads across network shares and embeds itself
deep into the infected PC.

Caution: An infected email can come from addresses you
recognize and may contain the following information:

Subject: [content varies]

Body: [content varies]

Attachment: [ standard executable extensions: .exe, .pif and
..scr ]

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Jun 6, 2003, 12:41pm

This is a Virus that is ment to work on Bank system, but if you update your
virus software every day, as you should. this virus is nothing to worry
about.

Tengel

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Jun 6, 2003, 12:52pm

Yep, its a nice one this one... It ended up in my mailbox too... but there r
always some simple things to avoid virusses to do their job:

- Never open attachments if ur not sure WHAT it is... (not from WHO it is,
cause sender might not know he/she did send it).

- If the mail does not make any sence to ya, just delete it.

- In this case the virus works different: This virus does not contain a
visable attachment. It opens a download dialog screen itself (is hidden in
the html encoding) and askes u to save or open the program it wants to dl...
In that case always remember u didn't ask to dl sumfin so cancel right away,
delete the message, and also empty ur deleted items bin.

- Far out the best protection for me still is: JUST DON'T USE MICROSOFT
OUTLOOK or OUTLOOK EXPRESS!!
Bout (I dunno) 99% of all virusses r written to work with Outlook (Express)
cause outlook reads the content (code) and just starts executing it.
Programs like Netscape don't do that therefor a virus like this one will not
harm ur system at all. Its just being ignored...

- Always contact the sender (if known by u) so he/she can get rid of the
virus to avoid new infections

- Last and most clear one: get urself a decent virusscanner and firewall and
make sure u get ur updates in time...

Hope these simple tips r helpfull enough for ppl who r not computer
experts... prolly there r other and better ways to protect urself, but the
rules above will protect u from almost anything..

screb



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Jun 6, 2003, 1:01pm

or just set your outlook to plain text, so it won't generate html code

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Jun 6, 2003, 1:28pm

Btw , the virus wont get to me ive got pc-cillin 2002 when it sees it it
destroys it (i update it every day)

king small guy

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Jun 6, 2003, 4:23pm

Ya call that new? :-o...... thats old by virus standards, lol

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Jun 6, 2003, 4:36pm

*pats NAV 2003 Pro with AutoLiveUpdate*

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Brock - 308723 - DE Leader
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Jun 6, 2003, 5:03pm

Date Discovered: 06/04/2003 seems fairly fresh to me. :)


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Jun 6, 2003, 5:21pm

*Pats INI based anti brock virus that Liveupdate dosent know about*

- Mark

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Jun 6, 2003, 5:41pm

Atcually this was sent to my father a few months ago. :-o

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Jun 6, 2003, 6:12pm

maybe a strain of this but not this one.

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Jun 6, 2003, 7:16pm

*pats Linux Mandrake 9.1 box*

-CMM

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Jun 6, 2003, 7:30pm

Well it is an old virus, this is just a remake of it, it changed and has new
features now.



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Jun 8, 2003, 12:44pm

*would like to know what kind of weed Mark is smoking, because he is
apparently delirious, and trying to make himself sound like he is smart at
the same time. Failing miserably of course.*

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Brock - 308723 - DE Leader

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Jun 8, 2003, 12:45pm

pc-cillin is the worst anti-virus avaliable, god get NAV, rated the best by
PC Mag and tons more pubs

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Brock - 308723 - DE Leader
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Jun 9, 2003, 12:28pm

"brock" <Brock at my.activeworlds.com> wrote in
news:3ee34c09$1 at server1.Activeworlds.com:

> pc-cillin is the worst anti-virus avaliable, god get NAV, rated the
> best by PC Mag and tons more pubs

Nah, NAV is big time bloatware and has no special advantage over PC-Cillin.
Trend Micro probably didn't pay as much as Norton did to win the tests :-D

KAH

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