[plug] Bugbear/B

[Kai Jones]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luke Dudney [mailto:dex at wn.com.au]
> Sent: Tuesday, 10 June 2003 1:41 PM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] Bugbear/B
>
>
> On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 13:17, Brad Campbell wrote:
> > Whoo.. 79 of them in 2 minutes this morning.. Someones
> machine is a busy
> > boy...
> >
> > F*&king windows..
>
> 6,492 Bugbears here yesterday.
>
> :-O

We've only had a few attempted infections here (ie, users receive infected
email but Command picks it up) and to my knowledge none of the infected
emails have succeeded to reinfect.
A friend of mine in Perth got his desktop machine infected, he runs
PC-Cillan...I think that program sucks but he's paid for it for a year so
he's using it. Even though he's got it set to auto update and auto-run
itself at midnight every night it still didn't pick up the infection, I got
a virus infected email from him yesterday, checked the headers and called
him and that was the only way he found out his machine was infected.

Having a virus scanner and keeping it up-to-date is essential
Having a virus scanner that actually works (ie Vet) is just as critical !