- Panda Software helps you combat Bugbear.B
free of charge with PQREMOVE -
Oxygen3 24h-365d, by Panda Software (http://www.pandasoftware.com)
Madrid, June 5 2003 - Due to the current high risk of becoming infected by
the new worm Bugbear.B, Panda Software has made the PQREMOVE application
available to all users, free of charge. This tool is designed to clean and
restore any computer that could have been infected by this worm and can be
downloaded from the address
http://updates.pandasoftware.com/pq/gen ... remove.com.
The multinational antivirus manufacturer has already released the updates
which ensure their antivirus solutions detect and eliminate Bugbear.B.
Therefore, if your software is not configured to update automatically, you
can do so from the company's website at http://www.pandasoftware.com.
Users whose computers have been affected by Bugbear.B can also clean their
computers free of charge using the free, online antivirus, Panda ActiveScan,
which is available on the company's website at http://www.pandasoftware.com.
This new worm is causing thousands of incidents around the world. In just a
few hours, Bugbear.B has climbed up to the first position in the ranking of
the top ten viruses most frequently detected by Panda ActiveScan. Similarly,
the multinational antivirus manufacturer's technical support services have
registered five times more inquiries than usual.
Bugbear.B is a polymorphic worm that spreads massively via e-mail in a
message with a variable subject and attachment. This is an extremely
dangerous malicious code, as it can infect a large number of files and
render many antivirus and security programs unusable.
Bugbear.B also exploits a known vulnerability in the browser Internet
Explorer, which is detected by Panda Software as Exploit/iFrame. By doing
this, it will be automatically run when the message carry the worm is viewed
through the Outlook Preview Pane.
This worm also opens communications port 1080, which allows hackers to gain
remote access to the affected computer. Furthermore, Bugbear.B captures the
keystrokes entered in the affected computer and saves them in a file. By
doing this, hackers that accessed this file would be able to obtain
confidential data such as passwords for accessing certain Internet services,
bank accounts, etc.
Finally, printers connected to a local corporate network affected by
Bugbear.B could start printing junk characters. This is due to a bug in the
worm's code when spreading across this type of network.
Additional technical information on Bugbear.B is available from Panda
Software's Virus Encyclopedia, at:
http://www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/encyclopedia/.
Gregor
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