McAfee.com has seen a large and growing number of computers infected with W32/Bugbear@MM virus. The risk assessment has been UPDATED TO HIGH for home and corporate users. Users should update their anti-virus software as soon as possible.
~Rick According to McAfee AV---Update 10/02/2002--- The risk assessment of this threat has been raised to Medium On Watch due to an increase in prevalence. This worm has the ability to spoof, or forge, the 'From:' field. (Often set to an address found on the victim's machine). Additionally the virus can use a fabricated from address, by taking the name before the "@" sign of one address, and the domain name after the "@" sign of another address. (ie. [EMAIL PROTECTED] + [EMAIL PROTECTED] = [EMAIL PROTECTED]) This virus is written in MSVC and packed with UPX. It spreads via network shares and by emailing itself. It also contains a backdoor trojan component that contains keylogging functionality. ___________________________________________________________________ Virus Scanned and Filtered by http://www.FamHost.com E-Mail System. To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
