Forum Archive Index - October 2002

["tennyson@caverock.net.nz" <tennyson@caverock.net.nz>]

Hi davida,

> 
>I do have virus protection that is updated every 3 days which I
>think is a fairly responsible and reasonable level of
>protection, however it has now been modified to daily updates.This 
>is still not foolproof as most virus companys took a day to 
>recognise and make an update available.
>
>

OK, I accept that you were caught out and have now modified your 
procedures so that the chances of it happening again have been 
severely reduced.   I think that is a reasonable response to what 
happened.

>
> 
>The virus that hit put several thousands of computers out worldwide.
>Your adress is not in my address book ,only the sharechat address as
>listed above.There are only 15 addresses in my address book in
>total.
>If  am indeed at fault I do apologise .
> 
> 

I've done a bit more homework, and it would seem this virus is 
possibly called 'bugbear'.

http://www.cnet.com/software/0-7760531-8-20478035-1.html?tag=txt

The brief is:

"Bugbear arrives via e-mail with no distinct characteristics except 
for an attached file that is always 50,688 bytes long. The 
subject line and text may be taken from existing e-mail."

"The Trojan horse part of this worm first terminates many popular 
firewall and antivirus programs."

I've got to admit this seems to be a rather nasty virus.  I haven't 
heard of a virus that picks an address from a stored e-mail 
that is not part of your address book before.  So I apologise for 
suggesting my name was in your address book for spamming purposes.   
It would seem I've learned something today too.

And now, back to shares ....

SNOOPY




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