Bugbear - again

[Pronto]

I'm PO'ed at Symantec (it makes Norton AntiVirus). I had (hopefully in
the past tense) the W32 Bugbear B@mm virus/worm*, and Norton AntiVirus
2003 did not detect it. Yet Symantec had a repair tool that eliminates
the bad thingy.

Barry Karas

*PS Despite a firewall and a constantly updated anti-virus pgm, I got
this bad thingy. But this is t/b expected since they're not at 100%
and I'm on the computer alot. This is the first computer virus that I
got in > 11 years of computing.

Also, Symantec listed the Bugbear B bad thingy but not the W32 Bugbear
B bad thingy.

 

[nicky]

I'm PO'ed at Symantec (it makes Norton AntiVirus). I had (hopefully in
the past tense) the W32 Bugbear B@mm virus/worm*, and Norton AntiVirus
2003 did not detect it. Yet Symantec had a repair tool that eliminates
the bad thingy.

If you were infected there is a good chance your AV was disabled by Bugbear,
its YOUR responsibility to protect your system by not opening emails and
attachments that you weren't expecting ...Symantec have the removal tools
for people like you that do manage to get themselves infected. You do
realise that Bugbear also drops a trojan keylogger as well and that your
personal information may have been compromised.

Barry Karas

*PS Despite a firewall and a constantly updated anti-virus pgm, I got
this bad thingy.

but not a fully patched OS it would seem as Bugbear exploits a mime header
issue that MS released a patch for some time ago, also, Norton added
Bugbear.B to their definitions on June 5th this year. Exactly how constantly
updated is your AV scanner????

Also, Symantec listed the Bugbear B bad thingy but not the W32 Bugbear
B bad thingy.

I have no idea what you mean as they are one and the same Bugbear.B is W32
Bugbear B. Did you mean that you couldn't see a separate listing for
bugbear.b but could only find W32.Bugbear.B?
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[email protected]

Nicky

 

[Pronto]

If you were infected there is a good chance your AV was disabled by Bugbear,
its YOUR responsibility to protect your system by not opening emails and
attachments that you weren't expecting ...

I have not opened up "strange" e-mail attachments for years.

Symantec have the removal tools
for people like you that do manage to get themselves infected.

I got myself infected? With a firewall and NAV 2003?

You do
realise that Bugbear also drops a trojan keylogger as well and that your
personal information may have been compromised.

How would I find the keylogger?

but not a fully patched OS it would seem as Bugbear exploits a mime header
issue that MS released a patch for some time ago, also, Norton added
Bugbear.B to their definitions on June 5th this year. Exactly how constantly
updated is your AV scanner????

At least three times a week.

Barry Karas