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New Variants of the Bagle Worm

Friday, October 29, 2004
Author: Schadenfroh
Permalink: 20041029161242508

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link to article
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1696931,00.asp

"Both variants are capable of spreading through peer-to-peer networks, as well as via e-mail. Both arrive in e-mail messages with spoofed sending addresses and one of a handful of meaningless subject lines, such as "Re:" "Re: Hello" or "Re: Thank you." The bodies of both variants contain just a single emoticon, and the name of the virus-infected attachment is either "Price," "price" or "Joke.""

New Variants of the Bagle Worm
Authored by: jgaylord on Sunday, October 31, 2004

Another link: http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=WORM_BAGLE.AU

Here is some additional info regarding the worm:

From:
Subject any of the following
• Re:
• Re: Hello
• Re: Hi
• Re: Thank you!
• Re: Thanks :)

Message body: any of the following
• :)
• :))

Attachment:
any of the following
• PRICE
• JOKE

with the following extension names
• COM
• CPL
• EXE
• SCR
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