W32.Bugbear.G@mm

W32.Bugbear.G@mm is a mass-mailing worm that sends itself to email addresses it gathers from certain files on the system using its own SMTP engine.

This variant may also expose certain confidential information from the infected machine. The email created by this variant will exploit Microsoft Internet Explorer Arbitrary Program Execution Vulnerability (BID 3867) that allows arbitrary execution of code on a remote machine.

Antivirus Protection Dates

• Initial Rapid Release version pending
• Latest Rapid Release version pending
• Initial Daily Certified version pending
• Latest Daily Certified version pending
• Initial Weekly Certified release date pending

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