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 > > > >