Re: VIRUS ALERT: w32/bugbear@MM
- Posted by Travis Beaty <tbeaty at mach3ww.com> Oct 02, 2002
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It was also sent to me, but not by your machine, as far as I can tell. It shut down my firewall for a split second, but MacAfee nailed it. I got an advisory about this one a couple of days ago. A subsequent complete virus scan showed no presence of it on my machine. Travis Beaty Mason City, Iowa. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Nelson" <MichaelANelson at WORLDNET.ATT.NET> To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com> Subject: Re: VIRUS ALERT: w32/bugbear@MM > > 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> > Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 4:21 AM > 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 > > > > > >