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Bugbear tops virus charts
News Bugbear has claimed a second month at the top of the virus charts. Bugbear accounted for almost 30 per cent of all reports of viruses to antivirus Sophos in the last month -- well ahead of former top spot incumbent Klez which now only accounts for...
[December 2, 2002, 7:38]
Bugbear virus threat on the rise
News Known as W32.Bugbear or I-Worm.Tanatos, the mass-mailing computer virus started infecting computers via email on Sunday. The Bugbear virus infects computers running the Windows operating system and an unpatched version of Internet Explorer 5.5...
[October 2, 2002, 8:02]
Bugbear rise knocks out Klez
News The Bugbear worm is shaping up into the most serious Internet threat in months, according to security researchers, as it surpassed the lingering Klez.H to become the fastest-spreading virus of the moment.
[October 3, 2002, 16:05]
Bugbear set to stick around
News The Bugbear email worm continued to top the virus charts over the weekend, but even though antivirus experts said that it may now be peaking there are signs it won't fade away any time soon. UK email service provider Messagelabs, which hosts email...
[October 7, 2002, 14:06]
Bugbear to set new virus record
News The Bugbear computer virus may be spreading more slowly this week than last, but it's still on track to be the most prolific email virus to date, antivirus experts said on Monday. Last week, email service provider MessageLabs intercepted 320,000...
[October 8, 2002, 7:45]
Inbox menace - Bugbear
News The Bugbear/Tanatos mass-mailing worm takes advantage of a vulnerability so well known that Microsoft released a patch to fix it a year ago. Bugbear will also attempt to compromise security on the infected system.
[October 10, 2002, 13:01]
Bugbear hits Australian parliament
News The Bugbear virus is causing havoc for the second time in a month at Australia's Parliament House in Canberra, interrupting the government's operations and highlighting dangerous security flaws. It seems that the Bugbear virus has reoccurred with...
[October 23, 2002, 9:12]
Mutant Bugbear worm targets bank security
News Security experts have uncovered a sinister new function in fast-spreading email virus Win32.Bugbear.B which suggests the worm harvests passwords used by bank employees. The Win32.Bugbear.B belongs a new, worrying class of email worm that not only...
[June 11, 2003, 15:38]
New Bugbear worm races up virus charts
News A new variant of the Bugbear virus -- Win32.Bugbear.B -- has emerged and threatens corporate and home computer systems, according to antivirus experts. Security firm iDefense first found Bugbear.B in Australia and the US on Wednesday, and said it...
[June 5, 2003, 10:06]
Virus hoax chart makes grim reading
News Fuelled by concern over genuine threats such as Klez, Bugbear and Magistr, computer users are continuing to fall for false warnings of non-existent viruses. The original version of this hoax claims that this file is a virus spread by MSN Messenger...
[January 3, 2003, 11:36]
Antivirus-killing virus threat upgraded
News Antivirus companies warned PC users on Thursday that a variant of the nine-month-old Bugbear virus has started spreading across the Internet, installing tools on infected computers that let intruders control the systems.
[June 6, 2003, 10:22]
Linux servers 'attacked more often'
Talkback London, UK - 19 February 2004, 13:30 GMT - mi2g Intelligence Unit data shows that partially as a result of the growth of the MyDoom family of malware, lingering effects of Mimail, Dumaru, Sobig, Swen, Klez, Sober, Yaha, BugBear and Fizzer, and...
[February 20, 2004, 19:14]
Klez still surfing the virus top ten
News The rest of the list comprised the 'usual suspects' -- viruses which have been dogging mail servers and administrators for months, such as Yaha, Bugbear and various variants of some of the big hitters of the malware world.
[March 3, 2003, 16:04]
Falls just short of excellent
Member Review My bugbear is alternate routes. Most points, like map updates and routing preferrences, have already been made. There is no option to come off at the next junction or the next available turn. The other major problem is map updates: I was once told...
[December 17, 2003, 10:29]
GoBack 4.0 Is a tidy little product.
Member Review Easy to Install my only bugbear was the length of time it took to initially scan my system. Although having allocated 3 Gigs for it to use for history restore (10% of my laptop capacity) this is less than xp system restore would use (at max).
[April 19, 2006, 15:11]
The EC's position on data roaming
Blog This issue, as you will know, is a constant bugbear for business travellers and, well, anyone wanting to take advantage of the shiny new services'n' surfing that mobile content providers (and corporate IT departments) are so keen to promote.
[October 19, 2006, 16:43]
10 flagrant grammar mistakes that make you look stupid
Talkback My bugbear #1! NO: We have been lead to this conclusion. YES: We have been led to this conclusion. YES: This box is made of lead.
[June 25, 2006, 11:54]
Email viruses show dramatic rise
News Yaha.E came second with 1.1 million copies, then it was Bugbear.A with 842,333, Klez.E with 380,937 and SirCam.A with 309,832. Although Klez was the most active virus, Bugbear was the most dramatic outbreak of the year, infecting one in every 87...
[December 16, 2002, 10:19]
Klez still dominates the virus top 10
News W32/Bugbear-A (Bugbear worm) 4.3 per cent Yet again Klez was the most common source of virus reports during the month of April, as measured by anti-virus firm Sophos. However, while many of the most prolific viruses have been doing the rounds for...
[April 30, 2003, 13:31]
Vandals deface ex-hacker Mitnick's site
News On 30 January, an online vandal using the handle BugBear bypassed the security on Mitnick's Web server. Bugbear's message: "welcome back to freedom mr.kevin ;)". Ex-hacker Kevin Mitnick is learning firsthand that online scofflaws are a fickle lot.
[February 11, 2003, 8:10]
