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<p>NEW YORK — A new computer virus that offers hackers full control of infected PCs, giving them access to critical information such as passwords and credit-card numbers, was spreading on the Internet Thursday.</p> <p>The virus, dubbed "BugBear.B" by virus experts, follows two other quickly spreading e-mail viruses seen in recent weeks — "Sobig.B" and "Sobig.C" — but far exceeds them in its ability to do harm and in the aggressiveness of its spread.</p>

© 1995-2002 Symantec Corporation. All rights reserved.Legal NoticesPrivacy Policy W32.Bugbear@mm Discovered on: September 30, 2002 Last Updated on: October 2, 2002 06:17:34 PM PDT NOTE: Due to an increased rate of submissions, Symantec Security Response has upgraded this threat from a Category 3 to a Category 4 as of October 2, 2002. W32.Bugbear@mm is a mass-mailing worm. It can also spread through network shares. It has keystroke-logging and backdoor capabilities. The worm also attempts to terminate the processes of various antivirus and firewall programs. Security Response has seen that because the worm does not properly handle the network resource...