BugHunter Program?

Dustin,

I ran your program on a couple of my computers. It works fine.
It didn't find any malware, which makes me feel better.

Scott

Dustin Cook wrote:

> Scott wrote:
> > I see where a freeware program called BugHunter v1.7.1 has been
> > released for dealing with certain types of malware (see above post).
> > Is anyone familiar with this program...and do you recommend it?
>
> Hello Scott,
>
> I'm the author of said program. It doesn't scan for anywhere near the
> amount of trojans, spyware, adware and browser hijackers the big guys
> do, but it does tend to scan for items they sometimes miss. I routinly
> harvest the samples from infected machines after our standard cleaning
> procedures.
>
> If you should have any questions you can ask here, or feel free to
> email.
>
> Regards,
> Dustin Cook
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"Scott" <golden.TakeThisOut@uslink.net> wrote in message news:43C49EF9.CDBDCEB7@uslink.net...

> Two questions:
>
> 1. Is an email containing an .eml attachment always safe to open?

No more or less safe than an already open one that displays the fact that there
is an attachment. If extensions are to be trusted, an .eml file is just a textual
email (RFC822) and only poses a threat when content is MIME decapsulated
and HTML rendered (and embedded scripts executed) by or for the client
email program.

I check to make sure the file extension isn't indicative of an executable or
other risky filetype. When I see the .eml I go ahead and open it because
I have my client set not to allow scripts to run, and that makes me feel
relatively safe. Better yet, set the client to display only textual email.

> 2. She got one forwarded from a Brazilian website (a flash animated drawing) with
> a live link to click on listed as "))" (without the quotes). When you click
> on the two parenthesis, it takes you to this address:
>
> www.pelourinho.com/movies/c003702
>
> I told her this looked a little suspicious.
>
> What do you think?

I wouldn't click on such a link just out of general principle. I wouldn't worry at all
about deleting such an email unread, in fact I wouldn't have even downlaoded it
from the server (I use "MailWasher" to delete direct from the server). Links in
emails are as untrustworthy as any other untrusted source of input.
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