Subject: Virus alert: Bugbear virus does not infect Macs
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Virex and the Bugbear virus
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The Bugbear virus has no impact on the Mac and, therefore, will not
be detected by Virex 5.9-6.1. Virex 7 for Mac OS X is capable of
detecting both Mac and PC viruses. Virex 7 can detect the Bugbear
virus if one installs the 4226 DAT file, or newer, from
<http://www.mcafeeb2b.com/naicommon/download/dats/find.asp>
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An attachment received with these odd emails is the virus itself.
The name of the attachment will be different in almost every email.
Anyone receiving odd emails should delete the email and any related
attachments so as not to inadvertently forward them to a Windows PC.
Whilst the Bugbear virus cannot "infect" your Mac, you will probably
receive multiple copies of Bugbear-infected emails and this can be
annoying as each one contains an attachment. One of our customers
reported receiving over 160 such emails. If you wish to avoid
downloading all of these virus attachments, review your email
preferences and see if there is a setting to only download the first
few kilobytes of each email. This will enable you to receive normal
emails whilst preventing attachments from being downloaded. There is
usually an option to fetch the entire email if you wish to receive
it.
* In Eudora, you can find this setting by choosing
Special>Settings>Checking Mail>Skip messages over __ KB. Set the __
to a size such as 20 KB.
* In Outlook Express 5, you can find this setting by choosing
Tools>Accounts>Mail. Double-click on your account and then click the
Options tab. Enable the option to "Partially retrieve messages over
__ KB."
* In Mail.app for Mac OS X, you can find this setting by choosing
Mail>Preferences>Accounts. Double-click on your account and then
click the Advanced tab. Enter a number in to the setting named
"Prompt me to skip messages over __ KB."
* In Netscape Communicator 4.7.x, you can find this setting by
choosing Edit>Preferences>Mail & Newsgroups>Disk Space>Do not store
messages locally that are larger than __ K.
PICA Software does not support email programs but we hope you find
these tips to be useful.
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Yours faithfully,
Luke Maslen
