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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Bugbear.b (worm du jour)
Maybe I should clarify: By "very slowly" I meant that this should spread significantly more slowly than something which is able to exploit a vulnerability and start executing as soon as it finds a susceptible host. If it's been in the wild for 12 hours without compromising most of the vulnerable hosts, that's slow relative to what's possible. Thus spake Jack Bates ([email protected]): [snip] > > That is a very bad assumption to make. Not all AV software can detect > the various variations of it yet. In addition, there are many EU's that > will still run any executable that shows up in their inbox. Many reports > of the Microsoft Patch scam being used with this one. > > It is multi-part mime, so my current stripping methods will protect the > mailboxes on my system. > > -Jack
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