Four new Bagle worms added to Internet soup
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Virus writers' penchant for modifying the source code for the programhas resulted in four new variants--Bagle.Q, Bagle.R, Bagle.S andBagle.T--in the past two days, antivirus firms said on Thursday.
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"It is definitely a new thing that is involved," said Oliver Friedrichs, a senior manager in Symantec's security response team. "Most of thevulnerabilities used in the past have the program as part of the virus."
The four new variants of the virus, which Symantec calls "Beagle," add tothe slew of slightly modified programs attempting toinfect Internet users. Virus writers have used the Bagle, NetSky andMyDoom worms to attempt to
The latest Bagle variants add an infection mechanism, which uses a flawin Windows that was patched in August. PC users who haven't updated theoperating systems could, upon viewing an e-mail message containing thevirus, cause their system to download and run a malicious program.
However, many of the Web sites that had acted as locations from which to download the attack code have been taken offline, said Friedrichs.
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