OpenEuphoria

Re: VIRUS ALERT: w32/bugbear@MM

• Posted by Mike Nelson <MichaelANelson at WORLDNET.ATT.NET> Oct 02, 2002
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Dan,

I got it from you or your source--current edition of Norton killed it. If
you upgrade your Virus checker, get one that scans outgoing email.

-- Mike Nelson
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Moyer" <DANIELMOYER at prodigy.net>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: 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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