VIRUS ALERT: w32/bugbear@MM
I just spent many hours getting the email virus w32/bugbear@MMand one called
PWS-Hooker.dll off my system, and since they are remailers, it's possible
people on this list might have been sent it too (from my address book), so
it wouldn't hurt to be alert for them.
I think they look for old email to re-present, because mine was purportedly
from David Cuny (at dcuny at siol.net), with a subject: Re: Peuphoria
so I opened it, and besides my firewall asking if it was ok to set something
up as a server (I said no), I got a notification (windows?) that a file was
being downloaded, which shouldn't have been happening, and then I noticed my
firewall wasn't in the systray anymore, nor was my anti-virus. So the virus
took them both OUT. and I think part of the virus load is a trojan to
capture/send passwords.
I did find the two myself, before I updated my virus checker & it found
them, by looking at all new files today at around the time my firewall went
down. Deleted one, but it came back, and the other was "in use" by Windows
& wouldn't delete until my virus checker got rid of it.
Maybe if I'd kept my virus checker up to date, I wouldn't have got it. ?
Dan Moyer
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