Mntsnow
05-31-2005, 12:31 PM
New Bagle Downloader spreading like wildfire via email - 45,769 copies intercepted in last hour at MessageLabs Anti Virus.
May 31, 2005 - Be on guard against a new variant of the Bagle downloader. MessageLabs has intercepted almost 70,000 copies already. The first copy was intercepted today at 13:24 GMT (14:24 BIT). 45,769 copies have been stopped in the last hour. The virus appears to have originated from a Yahoo group.
The as yet unnamed Bagle downloader variant drops a trojan that attempts to download Bagle from a vast list of locations. Computer users who activate the file attached in the email invoke the virus, which harvests email addresses it finds on the computer's hard drive. The virus then forwards itself onto the list of email addresses it has discovered in infected computer.
May 31, 2005 - Be on guard against a new variant of the Bagle downloader. MessageLabs has intercepted almost 70,000 copies already. The first copy was intercepted today at 13:24 GMT (14:24 BIT). 45,769 copies have been stopped in the last hour. The virus appears to have originated from a Yahoo group.
The as yet unnamed Bagle downloader variant drops a trojan that attempts to download Bagle from a vast list of locations. Computer users who activate the file attached in the email invoke the virus, which harvests email addresses it finds on the computer's hard drive. The virus then forwards itself onto the list of email addresses it has discovered in infected computer.