New Bagle bugs on the loose
p2pnet.net News:- Two things are certain in life —— taxes and Bagle variants.
So says F-Secure, reporting even more have been released in less than a day.
We detect them as Email-Worm.Win32.Bagle.cb, .cc, .cd, .ce, .cf, .cg and .ch, says company research director Mikko Hypponen.
These minor variants send emails with attachments related to Taxation such as The_reporting_of_taxes.zip or To_reduce_the_tax.zip.
Once again, these archives contain executable files with misleading icons, he states.
Some of the archives are ZIP files, some of them are RAR files and some of them are ZIP files with a .RAR extension.
The incorrect extension is used by the virus, apparently because some gateway filters might fail to unpack such files but many unpackers used by end users will have no problem, Hypponen adds.
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F-Secure – Two certain things in life: Bagle and taxes, August 12, 2005
