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Jax  news:XnsA44031EB577CJAX@127.0.0.1 
Fri, 13 Feb 2015 00:18:24 GMT in alt.politics.scorched-earth, wrote:

> I came across some links for sites which used to host Dustin Cook's 
> "BugHunter" program......... 

Nice.
 
> http://www.softpedia.com/get/Security/Security-
Related/BugHunter.shtml
> USER RATING:2.9/5 

Yep. As it's a post malware removal tool, that's DOS based, I don't 
expect to see many five star awards on primarily, Windows software 
sites in the same categories.
 
> http://download.cnet.com/BugHunter/3000-8022_4-10644171.html 
> Average User Rating: 2.5 out of 5 

Yep. It's only gotten four votes, let's checkout the comments:

The first person to vote for it is clearly showing their IT 
incompetence.. Read:

 June 02, 2008  |  By Web Bird

 |  Version: BugHunter 2.2

Pros

Don't really know.

Cons

Downloaded to a zip file, opened it and that's as far as it got. It 
must have disappeared into cyber space. Tried again, same result.

Summary

null

Updated on Dec 15, 2008

Same as above and I opened it ok. It's the worst program that I've 
ever used. Don't bother to download it. There are no malware or 
virus's (the program is clean that I know of). It's just difficult to 
understand. Don't bother with it.

Updated on Dec 15, 2008

Wormguard informed me that it has blocked BugHunter from loading 
because it regarded it as a problem. So don't touch it!!!


*** I don't know what wormguard is. I do know that BugHunter is clean, 
so the program had no legit reason to block it. The fact this user 
couldn't follow simple unzip into an empty folder instructions tells 
you the value of their vote.

Here's the second 'review':



"very nice antimalware app"

August 23, 2007  |  By redneckrockerphil

 |  Version: BugHunter 2.2

Pros

this is a very good antimalware app, as a freelance computer 
technician i like to have some antimalware apps that i can copy to a 
floppy and take with me to a job, and this is able to do just that. it 
checks files againts a very comprehensive database of known malware 
and gives you the option to ignore, disable or remove known malware, 
and since it's DOS based i'm able to scan an entire computer without 
having to install it, very nice

Cons

none so far

h0h0h0

Those are the only two reviews left on cnet.com. One is clearly from a 
user who isn't able to follow instructions and clearly, didn't 
understand how to use the program. Infact, they never got it running.

The other person to leave a review is obviously, a tech; which was the 
intended audience for BugHunter. they evidently, had no problem using 
it, understood what it was meant for, and happily gave it 5 stars for 
the work it does. *BIG GLOATING GRIN*

> A user rating of less than 3 stars is not exactly very good. Think
> about it. 

Well, it's a DOS based program. It loses stars for lack of point 
click. The no mouse confuses some people. :) So it doesn't get posh 
awards for eye candy it doesn't have. The idea of unzipping and being 
able to run it without installing is confusing for some as well. 
Proof? The first cnet 'review'. [g]

When rated for it's functionality over user interface, you get this:

http://www.completelyfreesoftware.com/reviews/du_w31_BUGHUN.html


http://www.completelyfreesoftware.com/du1_w31.html
(That's a five star award you're seeing [g])

Review date: August 31, 2006
Version reviewed: 1.9.2 (see Updates below)
NOTE: the review only pertains to the version/date mentioned above. 
Subsequent versions could be quite different from the reviewed 
version.
Review:

BugHunter is an antispyware tool to assist in finding and removing 
malicious software, often called "malware" (some browser & desktop hi 
jacking programs, including keyloggers, adware modules, spyware 
modules, trojans & dialers).

This is a tiny DOS utility that scans your computer and reports, 
and/or removes, instances of malware. You can use this program within 
Windows but, occasionally, it cannot remove some malware without being 
used in DOS. You can put it in a bootable floppy disk (or CD) and 
launch it from pure DOS, but normally it can be used from within 
Windows (up to and including Windows XP) to track down and delete or 
rename the vast majority of malware.

BugHunter works from a list of over 1,000 malicious files (EXE files, 
VB files, OCX, files, DLL files, etc) and the author has promised to 
update that list regularly. Of course, if a malware file isn't on the 
list it won't get flagged but it will still get all the ones that are 
on the list.

Scanning is not fast and you can expect to be waiting some 15 minutes 
while it scans your computer (time depends on how many files it has to 
check).

The opening screen (a DOS box under Windows) offers a choice of 4 
options – scan for malware only, scan for malware and rename it, scan 
for malware and remove it, and exit. Make your choice by typing in the 
appropriate letter (A, B, C or Q).

Initially we just scanned our system using BugHunter and 27 malware 
files were found. We believe that these were simply left over DLLs 
from previous programs which were removed from the computer and they 
were not active (there was no program to launch them). This initial 
scan did not name these 27 files, and the scan took just over 11 
minutes.

We then went to option C on the list, scan and remove, and it reported 
that 27 files were found, and 27 were deleted. This second scan took 
just over 9 minutes.

BugHunter is an excellent tool and one that all Internet users with 
PCs should run regularly. We were disappointed that it did not name 
the "suspect" files, or that it did not give us the option of deleting 
some and not others.

It would have been easy to include a Pause with an instruction to wait 
for the user to either skip, delete or rename the file before 
proceeding. This places the control back in the hands of the user and, 
if there is any question about a suspect file, its name could be 
searched through the Internet (Googled) to see what was written about 
it. Alternatively you can simply do a scan and then check the logfile 
for the files targeted.

BugHunter is a "must have" for all PC users.

Grab a copy now!

Hey, thanks for checking my BugHunter program out though. It was 
officially discontinued in 2008, so I question the legitimacy of this 
thread. [g]





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