Hobbit Virus Poses as Removal for BugBear Written in Visual Basic, this virus attempts to spread by mailing itself to email addresses extracted from the temporary internet files, and sharing itself using the KaZaa peer-to-peer file sharing network. The original source code has been released, leading to multiple compilations of this virus. This worm arrives as in an email message containing the following information: Subject: AntiVirus Updates: Body: A Removal to scan for the new BugBear Virus. Recommended by%senders name% (note there is no space after the word "by") http://vil.mcafee.com/dispVirus.asp?virus_k=99739 This info I got here in the "antivirus & firewall" section ---> http://www.amazingtechs.com Thx Discogail

I was wondering how I would get rid of this virus because my computer has it and maybe you might also know how in the world I would have gotten it? Please HELP ! Thank you!

the BugBear? see this post http://www.computing.net/security/wwwboard/forum/2491.html

Check out this link it has information on Bug Bear and a removal tool from Symantec. http://news.yahoo.com/fc?tmpl=fc&cid=34&in=tech&cat=computer_viruses

You wouldn't get the BugBear if you used the Windows Update site. The Bug Bear was know to Microsoft almost a year ago. They designed a patch for it at the time it was discovered.