New Bagle Variants Running Wild on Net

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Three newly discovered variants of the Bagle virus are running wild on the Internet, security experts warned today. IT security company F-Secure said that Bagle BB, BD and BE are spreading fast. The firm's senior security consultant Patrik Runald added that there is a "strong possibility" that the same person is behind all three. Bagle BB was spammed out in e-mail overnight to as many as 100,000 people. F-Secure has issued a "level two" alert about Bagle BB, which is a Trojan downloader...

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Anti-virus vendors are raising the alarm over another batch of Bagle worm mutants crawling through e-mail networks.
The latest variants have been equipped with Trojan horse downloaders and new propagation techniques that have led to wide distribution, according to a warning from Lynnfield, Mass.-based Sophos Inc...

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Threat Advisory: McAfee AVERT Raises Risk Assessment to Medium on New W32/Bagle.dldr

BEAVERTON, Ore., March 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE - News), the pioneer and worldwide leader of intrusion prevention solutions, today announced that McAfee(R) AVERT(TM) (Anti-virus and Vulnerability Emergency Response Team), the world-class research division of McAfee, Inc., raised the risk assessment to Medium on the W32/Bagle.dldr Trojan, also known as Bagle.dldr. New variants were reported to McAfee AVERT researchers this morning and to date, McAfee AVERT has received more than 100 distinct reports of these variants in the wild...

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