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Thread ID: 25308 2002-10-01 04:28:00 New Virus - Bugbear Jim B (153) Press F1
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84902 2002-10-01 04:28:00 There is a new virus circulating W32.Bugbear@mm
Watch out for it, quite a nasty one.
Name of Attachment: Variable, with double extension ending in .exe .scr .pif

Symantec information Here ( securityresponse.symantec.com)

Macs not affected, thats me. :-)
Jim B (153)
84903 2002-10-01 04:59:00 Had one incoming of this sort this afternoon, fortunately I had updated my McAfee defs this morning, however the ISP had stripped it out anyway. godfather (25)
84904 2002-10-01 05:01:00 My boss received one as a PPS! Chilling_Silence (9)
84905 2002-10-01 05:36:00 >>>Based on the massive flood of this virus we've seen today it looks >>>like a
>>>Klez killer has arrived.....
>>>(its outnumbering Klez by about 16 to 1 in our stats today)

also has the ability to disable virus scanners and firewalls.
-=JM=- (16)
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