OpenEuphoria

Re: VIRUS ALERT: w32/bugbear@MM

• Posted by Travis Beaty <tbeaty at mach3ww.com> Oct 02, 2002
• 386 views

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
> >
> >
>
>