On Tuesday 17 June 2003 01:29, Miles Thompson wrote:

> Hard to say - bugbear is making the rounds, and it's a pernicious little
> beastie.
>
> It not only uses an existing address list, it has a built-in SMTP mailer
> and synthesizes not only "To:" addresses, but also "From:" addresses.

> Norton's popping up that bugbear warning about 7x each day right now. I'm
> using Eudora with the "Use Microsoft viewer" option switched off - thus
> nothing happens and NAV is quarantining them.

It just amazes me how dumb these commercial products can be. It's not that 
hard for it to recognise that:

a) warnings should never be sent to a mailing list
b) some viruses use a 'random' from address and thus no warning should be sent 
to the 'sender'

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