Viruses being transported with Cygwin messages

[Randall R Schulz]

Hi,

I might help to know this is the "W32.Bugbear@mm" worm. It has been 
spreading a lot lately. In today's batch I received 3 copies under 
different names (supposedly from Christopher Faylor, Gareth Pearce and 
Elfyn McBratney), each with different contents and different attachment names.

Here's what Symantec has to say about this worm: 
<http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.bugbear@mm.html>

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 14:25 2002-10-13, Michael A Chase wrote:
>On 14 Oct 2002 06:36:02 +1000 Robert Collins <rbcollins@cygwin.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 05:04, Gregg C Levine wrote:
>
> > > Folks, don't roar at me, but I am seeing a number of messages arrive 
> here,
> > > infected. One came with a message via Robert Collins, twice,
>
> > Can you point me at the message with the virus? And the virus? I email
> > from UNIX, so am *very* surprised at this.
>
>Like spam, most common email viruses forge the 'from' address.  I am seeing
>a few of these too, but, as Chris said, they aren't coming through the
>Cygwin server.


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