This virus is running around asia pacific and is called the "bugbear virus. The W32.BugBear worm (also known as the Tanatos virus) is very similar to the Klez worm. The BugBear virus only affects PCs running Windows 95/98/NT/2000/Me/XP. It does not affect Macintosh or Linux PCs. The BugBear virus spreads primarily via infected email attachments. Infected attachments have random filenames, but end in one of the following extensions:
.exe .scr .pif Emails containing the infected attachment will have random 'Subject' headers and may or may not appear to come from someone known to you. However, the BugBear virus creates fake 'From:' data, so it is impossible to determine the true source of the email. Once a PC is infected, the virus searches the hard disk for all email addresses present on the PC, such as in the user's Address Book or in the message folders of the email software. Once it compiles a list of all available email addresses, it starts emailing copies of itself to those addresses. The virus is also capable of performing 'keyboard logging'; that is, recording all keyboard input. In doing so, the virus attempts to capture important information, such as passwords and credit card details, which it sends to the virus author. The virus also attempts to disable anti-virus and firewall software.So therefore having antivirus enabled is not always the solution and the FREAKIN VIRUS protection is usually activated ----- Original Message ----- From: "the pickle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Compact Macs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 10:28 AM Subject: Re: Virus message? > At 10:07 +1000 on 16/10/02, Darren wrote: > > >the pickle wrote: > > > >> Someone is subbed to this list on a Windoze box. > >> The above e-mail address is in the person's address book. > > > >No, the address is made up of parts. The address itself is nonexistent. > > Perhaps it is, perhaps it isn't. It's syntactically valid, at any rate. -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
