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Check your Windows !

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.

Damage

* Payload:
* Large scale e-mailing: Attemps to mass-mail to addresses harvested from a compromised host using it's own SMTP engine
* Compromises security settings: May allow unauthorized access to compromised machines. Attempts to terminate processes of various antivirus and firewall programs.

W32.Bugbear@mm
Discovered on: September 30, 2002
Last Updated on: October 3, 2002 05:13:22 PM PDT




Systems Affected: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Me

Systems Not Affected: Macintosh, Unix, Linux

PS : I only uses Mac, so I could not be infected by this one. If you receive it using my address (MagiSign), don't believe it. Just somebody using my e-mail address has probablyt got this virus and this one has pick my name in its list of address, and perhaps also part of a mail of me !

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