| | W32/BugBear@MM Virus Family - U-M Virus Busters |
 | | The BugBear virus affects only PC computers running Windows; Macintosh users, and users of other non-Windows operating systems cannot be infected by this virus. |
 | | The first BugBear variant was discovered 30 September 2002; VirusScan users at U-M with current antivirus definitions have been protected against BugBear specifically since 30 September, 2002, 15:02 EDT and protected in general (in its email attachment form) before that, even before the virus writer created it! |
 | | BugBear sends email from A's computer, using a From: address of person B, and a To: address of person D. -- or it combines B's and C's addresses to make a new address, and then it emails itself as if it were from this newly created address. |
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