Worms battle for turf

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A virtual blitz of worms is descending on the Internet. In the past four days, six new variants of the mass-mailing Bagle worm and two new variants of the Netsky worm have been spotted in the wild, ITWeb reports.

“It's interesting to note that a variant of Netsky attempts to remove a variant of Bagle, Bagle.C. It looks like a turf war out there, with the bad guys fighting over the infected computers,” says Ken Dunham, director of malicious code at iDefense.

Mikko Hypponen, director of anti-virus research at F-Secure, says the new Bagle variants – Bagle.C, D, E, F, G and H – appear to have been written by the same virus author. The new variants surfaced in quick succession from Friday.

“It seems the writer is waging a virus war,” he notes. “Apparently he has been monitoring closely how quickly the anti-virus vendors have released detections, then made the necessary alterations to avoid detection and released the new versions immediately.”
 

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What drives these people

Cant they find anything more constructive to do with their undoubted talents

ha ha ha
 

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Not being picky but I believe the worm is called beagle....rather than bagle. Norton have versions A - K covered.
 

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Q. Whats worse than finding a worm in your bagel?

A. Half a worm
 

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Just annoying...

Using mailwasher i delete the crap on the mailserver, bounce mail i do not want.

Never open an attachment too ;)

Cheers,

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I've now stopped bouncing mail (this week) and delete only, was getting too many undelivered notification back.

Mate of mine also made a valid point, that by bouncing everything it is just propogating more and more mail, therefor slowing up the system even more.
 

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>COR< said:
Just annoying...

Using mailwasher i delete the crap on the mailserver, bounce mail i do not want.

Never open an attachment too ;)

Cheers,

Cor.
Ditto here Cor. :-righton
 
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jimbo said:
Not being picky but I believe the worm is called beagle....rather than bagle. Norton have versions A - K covered.

Sorry Jimbo but I think you will find that this is correct.

Code in Mydoom.F, Bagle.I and Bagle.J
 

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Perhaps they should call it Bugle, as it makes you sick when you get it. :)
 

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rolfw said:
Perhaps they should call it Bugle, as it makes you sick when you get it. :)
ROFLOL .....let's settle for that. :D
 

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I suspect it's bagel but the program writer didn't have spelling as his number one priority...

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