This message is from: Steve McIlree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Normally, I don't want discussion of viruses on the list. However, since apparently one or more people on this list have been infected by the Klez and Bugbear worms, I'll address it and then we can drop the subject. I have been receiving two to six messages every day for the past four days containing one or the other of these worms; and I gather others on the list are having the same experience. The list server has also been receiving several messages every day generated by one of these worms; most are stopped by server filters because they purportedly come from addresses not subscribed to the list. The one that made it through had been defanged by the demime filter on the server. Both of these worms build their E-mail carriers from random information contained on the infected system's hard drive. Almost all of the messages I have received have contained information that would have come from old messages or addresses of people on this list, hence my supposition that the infected system(s) belong to subscribers of FjordHorse List. If you have some version of Windows and you are not running anti-virus software with up-to-date virus definitions, please go on the assumption that YOUR SYSTEM IS INFECTED. Beyond sending out E-mails that attempt to infect your friends' systems, Bugbear also opens a backdoor on YOUR machine that will allow hackers to take complete control of it over the Internet. Please get either Norton or McAfee anti-virus software up and working on your system and then let them scan your drives for infection. For current information about these two worms see the links below at Symantec's (Norton) security center.
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[EMAIL PROTECTED] **Breaking News!!** I have just received three more copies of bugbear and the list server received one. Since all four were attached to a copy of the December 11, 2001, Volume 2001: Number 323, FjordHorse List Digest we can narrow down the person with the infected machine a bit more. They were a subscriber to the Digest version of the list on December 11 2001, and still have a copy of that day's Digest on their hard drive. If this describes you and you are not running current anti-virus software, you may well be infected. -- Steve McIlree -- Pferd & Skipper -- Omaha, NE/Las Cruces, NM, USA A canter is the cure for every evil. --Benjamin Disraeli(1804-1881)
