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06-05-2003, 12:48 PM
Virus Alert: Bugbear-B Spreading Rapidly Via Email
By eSecurityPlanet Staff
Several antivirus software vendors issue alerts Thursday for W32/Bugbear-B, a dangerous network-aware virus that can disable antivirus and security programs.
W32/Bugbear-B spreads by sending emails containing attachments and by locating shared resources on your network to which it can copy itself. The virus attempts to exploit a MIME and an IFRAME vulnerability in some versions of Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Outlook Express, and Internet Explorer. These vulnerabilities allow an executable attachment to run automatically, even if you do not double-click on the attachment.
Microsoft has issued a patch which secures against these attacks. The patch can be downloaded from Microsoft Security Bulletin MS01-027. (This patch was released to fix a number of vulnerabilities in Microsoft's software, including the ones exploited by this virus.)
If the virus activates, several new files will appear on your computer. Their names consist of letters of the alphabet randomly chosen by the virus. View them at this Sophos page.
http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/2217561
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By eSecurityPlanet Staff
Several antivirus software vendors issue alerts Thursday for W32/Bugbear-B, a dangerous network-aware virus that can disable antivirus and security programs.
W32/Bugbear-B spreads by sending emails containing attachments and by locating shared resources on your network to which it can copy itself. The virus attempts to exploit a MIME and an IFRAME vulnerability in some versions of Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Outlook Express, and Internet Explorer. These vulnerabilities allow an executable attachment to run automatically, even if you do not double-click on the attachment.
Microsoft has issued a patch which secures against these attacks. The patch can be downloaded from Microsoft Security Bulletin MS01-027. (This patch was released to fix a number of vulnerabilities in Microsoft's software, including the ones exploited by this virus.)
If the virus activates, several new files will appear on your computer. Their names consist of letters of the alphabet randomly chosen by the virus. View them at this Sophos page.
http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/2217561
I was not sure were to post this but I figured where everyone can see.