Bugbear Virus - the latest pest

Hi Gassers,

 

I am posting Norton's words of wisdom about the latest major virus threat.  btw I have found that even if you don't have Norton you can still use their tools to check out your system. This is the link. http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.bugbear@mm.removal.tool.html

 

Michael

 

 

1. W32.Bugbear@mm

W32.Bugbear@mm is a mass-mailing worm. It uses its own SMTP engine to
send messages. It can
also spread through network shares. It has keystroke-logging and
backdoor capabilities. The
worm also attempts to terminate the processes of various antivirus
and firewall programs.

Symantec Security Response has seen that because the worm does not
handle the network resource
types correctly, it may overwhelm shared printer resources, causesing
them to print gibberish
or disrupt their normal functionality. It is written in the
Microsoft Visual C++ 6 programming
language and is compressed with UPX v0.76.1-1.22.

Virus definitions dated September 30, 2002 or later will detect this
worm.

For additional information, visit the following Internet address:
http://securityresponse1.symantec.com/sarc/sarc.nsf/html/w32.bugbear@m
m.html
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2. Removal tool

Symantec has provided a tool to remove infections of W32.Bugbear@mm.
If your computer is
detected as infected with W32.Bugbear@mm, then download and run the
tool. In most case, to
tool can remove the infection. To download the W32.Bugbear removal
tool, visit the following
Internet address:

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.bugbear@mm
.removal.tool.html

This is the easiest way to remove these threats and should be tried
first.