"W32.BUGBEAR" virus [Archive]

The Keeper

10-07-2002, 05:54 AM

anyone copped this virus yet? I've got two emails now, but my server, austarnet, bless their lil heart, screen all my mail for viruses, and they delete them before i get my mail. Then my agent sends me an email saying how everone is sending the virus to him, and to stop it, but he's special, cause he has a virus scanner that hasn't been invented yet.......**** I HATE AGENTS

Nyxan

10-07-2002, 08:42 PM

So you don't like agents then---LOL
Havent seen the virus yet. what does it do?

voice of god

10-07-2002, 09:39 PM

Isn't that the hoax one?

KingXII

10-08-2002, 12:33 AM

i'm so out of which viruses are active now i just have my AV scan every email that comes in plus one of my email servers just upgraded their spam and antivirus programs on the servers
i see no spam mail coming in anymore except the ones from the other email server.

voice of god

10-08-2002, 01:04 AM

Hey Merlin, I'm pretty sure that bear virus is a hoax.

If thats the same teddybear virus you talked about in this thread
http://board.midibuddy.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3585&highlight=virus

maybe your memory is going, I put it down to 1 of 2 things

1. watching all that linedancing has put you into a some kind of hypnotic trance
2. drinking too many magic potions late at night:rolleyes:

KingXII

10-08-2002, 01:06 AM

i thought merlin was the only one that did that
you two need to stop drinking magic potions well if you find one that make women to be attracted to me and make me cute please send one down this way.

The Keeper

10-08-2002, 02:58 AM

this virus is not the teddybear virus. no i'm not drinking TOO much potion. Yes I'm going mad.
Actually, this virus sends itself by attaching itself to your emails, yadayadayada, but it also infiltrates your system and sends private information, passwords, for example, to people in your address book. This is not a hoax, my server has deleted 2 before they got to me.

KingXII

10-08-2002, 03:52 PM

yeah proably my server caught them too plus emails that carry viruses are deleted and tourtured on the spot if one reaches me.

Nyxan

10-08-2002, 04:24 PM

I'm the same King I never see them my server executes them and I never know if I've even had any

KingXII

10-08-2002, 04:29 PM

i know one of my servers don't have protection against viruses but my AV scans the mail i recieve

Artistdude88

10-08-2002, 09:59 PM

i know alot about hacking and viruses and the "BugBear" virus is real....go to www.mcafee.com and the W32/Bugbear@MM is at high risk...so be careful about checking your mail and watch out for W32/Klez.h@MM becuase the risk of getting that one is rising.......goddam email worms!!!:flamemad:

The Keeper

10-09-2002, 05:24 AM

I go through austarnet, any time there is a virus in an email, they still send the email, but with the message telling me that i had a virus deleted, and what the virus was

evansst

10-10-2002, 02:39 PM

It's a pain in the butt virus. If you use Outlook with a preview pane, it can be activated by appearing in the preview pane. The attachment itself can be trapped by antivirus, but the message is in HTML and can can cause other problems with your email. It also can move thourgh your network and if your printer starts dumping pages and pages with a line of wing dings or non sensical chararcters, it has also recieved the virus. Power off & on should do the trick. We've had about 4 printers with this so far..... :hit:

The Keeper

10-10-2002, 05:23 PM

someone should invent a virus that attaches itself to viruses only and destroys them.........wait, then it'd suicide, wouldn't it?

Artistdude88

10-10-2002, 05:41 PM

there is sumthin like that...cept i dunno if they "attach" themselves to the virus. i know they r called anti-viruses...lol

The Keeper

10-10-2002, 05:58 PM

damn, everytime i get a good idea, someone else has already done it..maybe I should try and invent world peace

Artistdude88

10-10-2002, 07:42 PM

read the avatar contest thread....frogg007 said he was gonna spend his *cough*money*cough* to help world peace lol

The Keeper

10-10-2002, 11:04 PM

go frogg, whatta man!!

KingXII

10-10-2002, 11:06 PM

i'm getting bored after getting my nameglow
what else can I attain?

theARTiSAN

10-11-2002, 11:00 AM

W32.Bugbear@mm is real - and Artistdude is right - watch out for it. I received an infected email yesterday, but my 'excessive safety measures' spanked it.

Symantec has released a removal tool you can get at http://symantec.com/

Or if you don't feel like looking for it, I've attached it here.
I've also included the removal instructions saved into .txt format.

Ciao~

evansst

10-11-2002, 05:06 PM

Good thinkin' man. Computer Associates (Mcafee) advise if your antivirus is not up to date, updating it after you have got Bugbear, won't help it. You need a fix like Artisan has provided....:thumbsup:
____________
We are strangers to each other
Each one's life a novel no one else has read
Even joined in bonds of love
We're linked to one another by such slender threads...

—Neil Peart

KingXII

10-11-2002, 05:37 PM

norton rocks it automaticlly updates me to the newest version of virus definitions but i check it once in a while anyways.

BTW i just noticed that this is my 500th post. mwahaha I got there b4 merlin did.

The Keeper

10-11-2002, 05:51 PM

congratulations, king, very impressive :thumbsup:

The Keeper

10-11-2002, 11:06 PM

I'm still getting friends who think the 'teddybear' virus and the 'bugbear' virus are one and the same