Bugbear also takes advantage of a well documented bug in Internet Explorer,(a patch was released for this long ago) where it will execute an attachment in an html mail message. The virus infects an unpatched computer when the message is read.
Be sure you have this patch: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS01-020.asp or just point your internet explorer at http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com - and your computer should grab the update. But I bet this site is a little busy now. Only affects windows computers. Bugbear also disables most of the popular anti-virus programs. If you think you might have bugbear Sophos has released a free program that will confirm whether or nor your system has bugbear This link will download a package with the program: http://www.sophos.com/tools/bearsfx.exe More info here: http://www.sophos.com/support/bugbear.html Gord On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, George L Smyth wrote: > Don't open attachments without knowledge that someone sent one (send them an > email asking if they did send one before opening it). Ensure that you have an > antivirus program running when you do open an attachment, just in case you > were > inadvertently sent an infected file. It's just a cost of doing business on > the > Internet. > > Cheers - > > george > > > --- Andy Schmitt <aschm...@warwick.net> wrote: > > I don't have your direct email address so I couldn't send it just to you.. > > I'm really happy my ISP does this... > > andy > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Gregg Kemp [mailto:gregg.k...@swipnet.se] > > Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 4:33 AM > > Subject: Re: WPPD in Sweden - FYIO > > > > > > This message has been processed by Brightmail(TM) Anti-Virus using > > Symantec's Norton AntiVirus Technology. > > > > readme.exe was infected with the malicious virus W32.Bugbear@mm and has been > > deleted because the file cannot be cleaned. > > > > > > For more information on anti-virus tips and technology, visit > > http://www.brightmail.com/antivirus . > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Post to the list as PLAIN TEXT only - no HTML > > Pinhole-Discussion mailing list > > Pinhole-Discussion@p at ??????? > > unsubscribe or change your account at > > http://www.???????/discussion/ > > > ===== > Handmade Photographic Images - http://GLSmyth.com > DRiP Investing - http://DRiPInvesting.org > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More > http://faith.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > Post to the list as PLAIN TEXT only - no HTML > Pinhole-Discussion mailing list > Pinhole-Discussion@p at ??????? > unsubscribe or change your account at > http://www.???????/discussion/ > --------------------------------------------------------- Gordon J. Holtslander Dept. of Biology hol...@duke.usask.ca 112 Science Place http://duke.usask.ca/~holtsg University of Saskatchewan Tel (306) 966-4433 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Fax (306) 966-4461 Canada S7N 5E2 ---------------------------------------------------------
