Free Bugbear disinfection tool. (Virus Notes).Sophos have announced the availability of a standalone disinfection disinfection, n the process of destroying pathogenic organisms or rendering them inert. disinfection, full oral cavity, n a procedure used to reduce active periodontal disease, usually completed within a certain short time frame. tool accessible to the entire net community (not just Sophos customers) to decontaminate de·con·tam·i·nate tr.v. de·con·tam·i·nat·ed, de·con·tam·i·nat·ing, de·con·tam·i·nates 1. To eliminate contamination in. 2. PCs infected with the new Bugbear worm (W32/Bugbear-A). Whilst most business users have put measures in place to defeat this worm, many home PC users are being badly bitten by Bugbear," said Sophos. This free clean-up tool makes it easy for anyone to disinfect To remove the virus code that has attached itself to a legitimate file. Sometimes, the antivirus program cannot untangle the code, and the infected file has to be deleted. See quarantine. their computer. Along with updating anti-virus software anti-virus software n → Antivirensoftware f , home users should be vigilant about applying patches against OS vulnerabilities. Microsoft issued a patch against this flaw in 2001, it seems as if businesses have heeded this advice, but individuals have been less security conscious." The Bugbear worm spreads by sending itself in emails and by copying itself around a network. It attempts to exploit vulnerabilities in some versions of Microsoft Outlook For the e-mail and news client bundled with certain versions of Microsoft Windows, see . Microsoft Outlook or Outlook (full name Microsoft Office Outlook , Microsoft Outlook Express, and Internet Explorer Microsoft's Web browser, which comes with Windows starting with Windows 98. Commonly called "IE," versions for Mac and Unix are also available. Internet Explorer is the most widely used Web browser on the market. It has also been the browser engine in AOL's Internet access software. . These vulnerabilities allow an executable attachment to run automatically, even without being double-clicked. Inside this attachment is a Trojan horse which enables the remote capture of passwords and other confidential information. One unusual symptom of Bugbear infection is that printers can spurt into action. Bugbear tries to copy itself to all types of shared network resources, including printers. Printers cannot become infected, but they will attempt to print out the raw binary data of W32/Bugbear-Als executable code usually resulting in many wasted pages of paper. www.sophos.com |
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