Bugbear.b (worm du jour)

2003-06-06 Thread Eric Anderson
Is this showing up as an issue for anyone? All I'm looking at is an MSNBC story which gives me the impression that it's a pretty low-bandwidth deal. It sounds like it requires intervention by the end user (or a system reboot) to activate it, so the propagation rate ought to be very low.

Re: Bugbear.b (worm du jour)

2003-06-06 Thread Jack Bates
Eric Anderson wrote: Is this showing up as an issue for anyone? All I'm looking at is an MSNBC story which gives me the impression that it's a pretty low-bandwidth deal. It sounds like it requires intervention by the end user (or a system reboot) to activate it, so the propagation rate ought to

Re: Bugbear.b (worm du jour)

2003-06-06 Thread Eric Anderson
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

Re: Bugbear.b (worm du jour)

2003-06-06 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 05 Jun 2003 18:47:45 PDT, Eric Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Is this showing up as an issue for anyone? All I'm looking at is an MSNBC story which gives me the impression that it's a pretty low-bandwidth deal. I t sounds like it requires intervention by the end user (or a system