Hope the Moderators will indulge me but....
Warnings were issued today about the rapidly spreading W32/Bagle-mm Windows worm. The worm poses as a test message and so far has tricked people in 87 countries into opening it and helping it spread. Bagle (which people are pronouncing Beagle), plunders address books for e-mail addresses and uses an in-built mail program to send itself to new victims. It also tells its creator about an infected computer and tries to open a backdoor that a malicious hacker could use to take control of the machine.
Infected emails include a file attachment ending .exe and the word "hi" in the subject line. The message contains the word "test" followed by the symbol =). The Bagle virus is set to self destruct on 28th January 2004 and will cease to work at all after this date.
For more info, see:
www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_857408.html
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3410209.stm
itvibe.com/default.aspx?NewsID=1200
Chad.
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Cheers. Will leave as read-only for now and move to IHAQ after 24 hours.
No Dosh
mailto:Alan_moderator@honestjohn.co.uk
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