I just received this from another list I'm on. I have followed the instructions on the website and I'm declared clean, no sign of bugbear. This took me about 5 minutes, after downloading the two recommended files, on a 80 mg hard drive. I downloaded to a floppy, plenty of room on a 1.44 mg floppy. I also printed out the webpage of instructions and the instructions for the chktrust file, this verifies you have a true download of the bugbear removal file. Aleta, IBSSG, Charter Member Bo-Peep Award Ogden, Utah, USA "God sent his Singers upon the Earth, With songs of Gladness and Mirth. That they might touch the hearts of men, And bring them to Heaven again." --Longfellow > It has taken me three hours to clean the machine from the BugBear virus. I > got three copies of it, apparently, and didn't open anything, just deleted > the letters because there wasn't a name I recognized. What it sent out is > fragments of four different posts...even a subject line which didn't > pertain. It sent to every yahoogroup... everyone in my mailing lists and > then some people I have never known exist. > > To do it, it got through three anti-virus programs and a firewall > undetected. My regular anti-virus program wouldn't clean it. > > PLEASE go asap to http://www.snopes2.com and click on the phrase Bugbear > Virus. It will lead you clearly through directions for a special detector > of the virus and then will allow you to have a free download from Symantec > (You can always trust that name) for a BugBear removal program. > > This virus self-propagates. Within a half-hour of discovering my computer > was infected with it, it had changed from one to three infected files and > was changing the register signature. > > I ask you for your sakes and those in your address book not to take it for > granted that you've been protected from it. I have done everything advised > to protect my computer and it still got through. > > Oh! There are no attachments with this virus.... > > I never want to meet the sick people who concoct these things.