Re: CRIME Bugbear

From: Jere Retzer (retzerj@private)
Date: Wed Oct 09 2002 - 12:31:57 PDT

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    I received bugbear at home last evening on my XP box. Norton immediately quarantined it and I downloaded and ran the tool from their web site to check my machine. It was clean. Nasty virus
    
    >>> "Christiansen, John (SEA)" <JohnC@private> 10/07/02 11:23AM >>>
    To the CRIME braintrust:
    
    A family member appears to have downloaded Bugbear (no, it wasn't me, nor
    was it my computer) - an unfortunate "early adopter" who got hit Friday. I
    had her download the Norton fix but it appears not to fully execute, and
    attempts to update Norton antivirus since also fail. It's a Windows ME box -
    aside from snarfy comments about the application, anybody have a suggestion?
    THX!
    
    
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    <<October 5, CNN - 'Bugbear' worms in, opens doors to hackers. The "Bugbear"
    worm, which was first reported in the NIPC Daily on 4 October, ".appears to
    be designed by someone who intended to steal credit card info or other data,
    not necessarily destroy files," said George Stagonis, a researcher for
    anti-virus company Central Command. The number of new cases reported daily
    is rivaling, and even exceeding, that of the better-known Klez virus, a
    similar bug that hit millions of computers this year. "We don't think it's
    peaked yet because it's staying way ahead of people updating their
    anti-virus software," said Stagonis. Source:
    http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/10/04/virus.bugbear/index.html>>
    



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