How do I protect my computer from the Bugbear.B (W32.Bugbear.B@mm) worm?
Just when we were all breathing a collective sigh of relief that the Klez worm finally seemed to be fading away, the new and improved version of the Bugbear worm has hit the Internet in a big way. Since its discovery on June 4th, this new version of Bugbear, called W32.Bugbear.B@mm or Bugbear.B for short, has been spewing copies of itself to mailboxes everywhere. Bugbear.B follows the old familiar worm pattern. It arrives in your mailbox as an email with an attachment. The attachment is the worm. Over the weekend, it was very successful in getting people to infect their computers by double-clicking on the attachment. The attachment is usually 72k in size. Since this is an improved version of the older Bugbear worm, it can also infect computers over a network via Windows file sharing. Symantec and other anti-virus research groups have identified a number of possible subjects lines the worm infected email might use. However, the worm will just as readily grab the subject line from an exi
