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A Guide to Search Results for "Bugbear Virus" help - feedback - sponsor this guide The "Bugbear virus" first appeared on Monday September 30, 2002. Once the virus is activated on an infected machine, it shuts down vital processes that are used by antivirus and firewall software, captures passwords by recording user keystrokes, and propogates itself as an e-mail attachment as well as by copying itself to shared network directories that are accessible to the computers that it infects. When propogating itself by e-mail, the virus forwards random copies of old e-mail messages to random third parties and attaches itself to these e-mails using random file names and multiple file extensions, thereby disguising itself and disclosing otherwise personal e-mail correspondence to third parties. As it attempts to access shared directories on computer networks, the virus may also send copies of itself to shared network printers, thereby generating hundreds of pages of printouts with each page containing only a few characters of the virus' binary code. Finally, Bugbear opens a backdoor whereby a malicious hacker can access an infected machine using a Web interface created by the virus, thereby enabling the hacker to browse local files and execute programs on that machine. The Bugbear virus only affects computers running under one of the Microsoft Windows operating sytems. To protect your PC from exposure to this virus, make sure that your virus protection software is up to date and download the newest security patch from Microsoft.
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