Re: Somebody saw this trojan ?

From: Mike Dresser (mdresser@windsormachine.com)
Date: 10/07/02 

Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 14:00:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mike Dresser <mdresser@windsormachine.com>
To: Bassam ALHUSSEIN <bhussein@scs-net.org>

On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Bassam ALHUSSEIN wrote:

> Hello ..
>
> Well, I have some basic concepts about viruses and security. I am using NAV
> 2001 with the virus definitions of 16/09/2002 and it generally scans the
> incoming emails. but after reading that email I noticed that NAV is not
> running +ACEAIQAh-

Your outdated virus definitions missed the BugBear trojan.

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.bugbeart@mm.html

As well, you should patch up your outlook express to something that
doesn't autorun attachments via exploits/bugs.

Mike

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