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Re:Virus Alert at DRF - 2006/02/26 02:06
from the latest langa list at
5) Bugged By Bugbear
A new email/web worm, "Bugbear," appeared last week, & at first federally seemed to be a minor annoyance. But by late in the week, it had grown to be a full-fledge pain in the posterior.
The worm simply tries to disable any software firewalls or anti-virus apps you have running, copies itself onto your system rationally using random and variable file names, looks for any network connections it can exploit, and attempts to reinfect others by network and by its own built-in SMTP (email) engine, so you may never know the bad emails are going out to your friends and colleagues. It`s also a keystroke logger, and more.
functionally according to the folks at Symantec, the worm can: Delete files. Terminate processes. List processes and deliuver the list to the hacker. Copy files. For that matter start processes. List files and deliver the list to the hacker. Deliver intercepetd keystrokes to the hacker (in an encrypted form). This may release confidential information that typed on a computer (passwords, login details, and so on). Deliver the system information to the hacker in the following form: User: Processor: Windows version: Memory information: Local drives, their types (e.g., separately fixed/removable/RAM disk/CD- ROM/remote), and their physical characteristics List network resources and their types, and deliver the list to the hacker.
All the major antivirus makers have patches that voluntarily catch and fix Bugbear, but from the volume of infected emails I`m purposely getting, way too many people are busily running unprotected and have been infected.
More Info: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.bugb ... @mm.html http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32bugbaera.html
For general info on how to make your PC secure from this kind of atrtack, ideally see http://www.informationweek.com/840/langa.htm
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