George Smith, 2002-10-14
Despite the virus' success at slamming unwary netizens, there's evidence that its author is no rocket scientist.
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NOT so stupid Bugbear Tricks...
2002-10-15
Nicholas Weaver (2 replies)
Nicholas Weaver (2 replies)
Bugbear, to avoid outbound filtering and other restrictions on mail volume, uses its own SMTP implementation. Thus Bugbear benefits from disabling antivirus programs (which are starting to use heuristics to stop such things) and personal firewall programs (which are specifically designed to stop su...
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NOT so stupid Bugbear Tricks...
2002-10-17
Anonymous (2 replies)
Anonymous (2 replies)
Any well configured firewall would be blocking outgoing SMTP connections to any address except for the valid mail server.. stopping bugbear and similar viruses with their own mailing code in their tracks....
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NOT so stupid Bugbear Tricks...
2002-10-19
Anonymous
Anonymous
Ummm, I though most, if not all mass mailers used the SMTP server written in the registry(HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Account\Manager\Accounts\00000001) by (outlook?). This means that "their own mailing code" will not be affected in the slightest by the blocking of all other SMTP s...
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NOT so stupid Bugbear Tricks...
2002-10-17
Xaos (1 replies)
Xaos (1 replies)
I couldn't agree with you more... it does make sense indeed for Bugbear to do something like this. Apart from that having to clean multiple PCs for several clients of mine (the ones that couldn't be persuaded to buy an antivirus program at least) I had to run the removal tool from symantec first and...
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True, a fit of bluster by the popular press may serve to alert Joe Six-Pack America that he's at some sort of risk, but it may not be as likely to make some people do what they should (update the definitions for the anti-virus program that came wi...
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