FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Bugbear Virus on the Loose

Dangerous virus wreaking havoc on computers

October 15, 2002 -- NOTE: Due to an increased rate of submissions, Symantec Security Response has upgraded this threat from a Category 3 to a Category 4 as of October 2, 2002. W32.Bugbear@mm is a mass-mailing worm. 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. Because the worm does not properly handle the network resource types, it may flood shared printer resources, which causes them to print garbage 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.

Some of the e-mail subjects associated with this virus have been:

However, the worm can create a new message as a reply to or forward of an existing message on the infected system, meaning one of your personal documents could be sent out to someone in your address book.

The easiest way to remove the threat is by using Symantec's  W32.Bugbear@mm Removal Tool. Click here to obtain the tool.

Instructions for manually removing the virus may be found at the bottom of http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.bugbear@mm.html.
 

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