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| Thread ID: 25561 | 2002-10-07 01:41:00 | Additional Outlook Express Fix for BugBear | Chilling_Silence (9) | Press F1 |
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| 86655 | 2002-10-07 01:41:00 | I received this email from Ihug, It contains the URL for information on the fix that prevents files from automatically being loaded when previeing a message. It helped me coz I had deleted the preview pane, but I've since brought it back! Dear Ihug Customer, Please be aware there's a new virus on the loose called bugbear, (aka Tanatos, W32/Bugbear, Tanat, W32/Tanat, I-Worm.Tanatos, I-Worm/Keywo) whew! Here's some useful information regarding this virus and steps on how you can remove it if you get infected. You best get i-Spy: Remember prevention is always better than a cure! Sign up for our virus protection now: www.ihug.co.nz Technical virus info jargon: Bugbear worm's file is a PE EXE (portable executable), 50688 bytes long and it is compressed with UPX file compressor. The worm spreads in e-mail messages as an attachment with randomly-generated names and with one or more extensions. Subjects and bodies of infected e-mails are also different. The worm's messages can contain IFrame exploit that allows it to run automatically on some computers when an infected e-mail is viewed (for example, with Outlook and IE 5.0 or 5.01). Email patch: This vulnerability is fixed and a patch for it is available on Microsoft site: www.microsoft.com What it may look like: Bugbear can pick up e-mail messages from infected user's databases and send them out with its copy attached. It can place contents of a random text file from an infected hard drive to an infected message's body. The worm can send itself in a message with one of the following subjects - click below - www.ihug.co.nz For Disinfection Instructions - click below - www.ihug.co.nz |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 86656 | 2002-10-07 02:07:00 | Hey Chill, Hopefully you don't shoot the messenger up there where you come from but the microsoft.com page listed above just led to a 404 M$ were very polite about it though. "Our Apologies... The page you are looking for no longer exists." |
Chris Wilson (431) | ||
| 86657 | 2002-10-07 02:12:00 | Chris, Chill, It's here IE55Patch (support.microsoft.com) Babe. |
Babe Ruth (416) | ||
| 86658 | 2002-10-07 02:18:00 | *Feels sorry for Ihug mailing a link that expried after only 1 1/2 days!* | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 86659 | 2002-10-07 02:19:00 | Ooops, One more thing... I had IE and OeX 6?! Why'd it still do it? | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
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