Techno-News Blog Ray Schroeder, editor, OTEL - University of Illinois at Springfield

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Saturday, October 05, 2002

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2299303.stm

The Bugbear e-mail virus

The Bugbear virus has been rated as a high danger to computer users by anti-virus experts. BBC News Online explains how it works and what can be done to stop it.... Bugbear is an e-mail virus that can automatically infect computers running Windows if you have not closed a security hole in Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Outlook Express, and Internet Explorer. But you still have to be careful - even if you have patched the loophole - as opening the e-mail attachment will allow the virus to infect a computer....

 


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