September 30, 2002 Information Security Advisory

Internet Worm Alert: W32.Bugbear@mm is a mass-mailing worm. It can also 
spread through Network shares. It has backdoor capabilities.

If you use Symantec's Antivirus, please go to the Intelligent Updater 
(Updated daily) right now and dowload the latest virus definitions, then 
run a system scan. The LiveUpdate weekly updates will not be ready until 
Wednesday.

Another antivirus vendor, Sophos, issued a warning earlier today.

Intelligent Updater: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/defs.download.html


This worm copies itself into the Windows start up folder in order to run 
on system restart. Oce activated, the worm attemtps to disable security 
software from the target computer as it kills the following data security 
processes if they are running in the system:

ZONEALARM.EXE
WFINDV32.EXE
WEBSCANX.EXE
VSSTAT.EXE
VSHWIN32.EXE
VSECOMR.EXE
VSCAN40.EXE
VETTRAY.EXE
VET95.EXE
TDS2-NT.EXE
TDS2-98.EXE
TCA.EXE
TBSCAN.EXE
SWEEP95.EXE
SPHINX.EXE
SMC.EXE
SERV95.EXE
SCRSCAN.EXE
SCANPM.EXE
SCAN95.EXE
SCAN32.EXE
SAFEWEB.EXE
RESCUE.EXE
RAV7WIN.EXE
RAV7.EXE
PERSFW.EXE
PCFWALLICON.EXE
PCCWIN98.EXE
PAVW.EXE
PAVSCHED.EXE
PAVCL.EXE
PADMIN.EXE
OUTPOST.EXE
NVC95.EXE
NUPGRADE.EXE
NORMIST.EXE
NMAIN.EXE
NISUM.EXE
NAVWNT.EXE
NAVW32.EXE
NAVNT.EXE
NAVLU32.EXE
NAVAPW32.EXE
N32SCANW.EXE
MPFTRAY.EXE
MOOLIVE.EXE
LUALL.EXE
LOOKOUT.EXE
LOCKDOWN2000.EXE
JEDI.EXE
IOMON98.EXE
IFACE.EXE
ICSUPPNT.EXE
ICSUPP95.EXE
ICMON.EXE
ICLOADNT.EXE
ICLOAD95.EXE
IBMAVSP.EXE
IBMASN.EXE
IAMSERV.EXE
IAMAPP.EXE
FRW.EXE
FPROT.EXE
FP-WIN.EXE
FINDVIRU.EXE
F-STOPW.EXE
F-PROT95.EXE
F-PROT.EXE
F-AGNT95.EXE
ESPWATCH.EXE
ESAFE.EXE
ECENGINE.EXE
DVP95_0.EXE
DVP95.EXE
CLEANER3.EXE
CLEANER.EXE
CLAW95CF.EXE
CLAW95.EXE
CFINET32.EXE
CFINET.EXE
CFIAUDIT.EXE
CFIADMIN.EXE
BLACKICE.EXE
BLACKD.EXE
AVWUPD32.EXE
AVWIN95.EXE
AVSCHED32.EXE
AVPUPD.EXE
AVPTC32.EXE
AVPM.EXE
AVPDOS32.EXE
AVPCC.EXE
AVP32.EXE
AVP.EXE
AVNT.EXE
AVKSERV.EXE
AVGCTRL.EXE
AVE32.EXE
AVCONSOL.EXE
AUTODOWN.EXE
APVXDWIN.EXE
ANTI-TROJAN.EXE
ACKWIN32.EXE
_AVPM.EXE
_AVPCC.EXE
_AVP32.EXE


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Scan your computer for viruses every week and don't forget to back up your files! 

Fredo
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