[UK-CONTEST] Bugbear virus

[Ian White, G3SEK]

Don Beattie wrote:
>According to some, all this virus does is get your printers rattled.

Much more than that - see www.symantec.com  The printer problem is a 
fortunate bug in the virus, which may be a useful alert!

>But the BBC this morning carried the story that it sniffs out all your 
>bank details (if you use e-banking)  and sends them to some nice chap 
>in Malaysia !
>
It does attempt to send details about the PC to the hacker, and while 
you're online it also opens up a port that will accept remote commands. 
Nasty piece of work.

>McAfee (updated, fortunately, one day earlier) caught the four copies I 
>was sent !
>
It tries to disable many common anti-virus and firewall programs... but 
it has to get past your existing defences first.

-- 
73 from Ian G3SEK         'In Practice' columnist for RadCom (RSGB)
                            Editor, 'The VHF/UHF DX Book'
http://www.ifwtech.co.uk/g3sek