6 June 2003
W32/BugBear.B@mm is spreading with tremendous speed
W32.Bugbear.B@mm, a new variant of W32.Bugbear@mm, was discovered in the wild on 5 June 2003. It is a mass-mailing worm that also spreads through network shares.
This worm installs a keylogger and a backdoor on an infected system as well as it shuts down several security related process
For a detailed description visit our virus information pages.
W32/Bugbear.B@mm is detected by the latest versions of F-Prot Antivirus using virus signature files since 5 June 2003 or later.
People are urged to update the virus signature files. Click here for instructions on how to update the virus signature files.
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