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Re: New Virus out

From: Simon Byrnand <simon_at_igrin.co.nz>
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 16:26:32 +1200
Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20021001162632.015bdc50@mail.igrin.co.nz>

At 15:07 1/10/02 +1200, Geoff wrote:

>Havent heard of that one, but I have heard of 'bugbear'.
>
>We have had a few ADSL users on LANs calling asking why their printers are
>trying to print this 'network document'.

LOL

>Bugbear tries to spread by sending itself to network shares... and obviously
>it doesnt differentiate between network devices..
>
>Just a heads up anyway... be warned.. it deletes NAV, Sophos, macaffee,
>my-etrust *.exe's

I don't think it deletes them, but it certainly closes them down when you
try to run them.

More info:

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.bugbear@mm.html

Regards,
Simon

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