A warning, a good newsletter it came from

[mikmik]

We can post good newsletters we find here, I invite you to post your favourites.

These guys are no nonsense, and not one spam or marketting letter from them in two weeks.

Here it is in full:

a² News

Dear mikel,

Worm.Win32.Bagle.AF Alert!
A new Bagle variant is spreading. Bagle.AF arrives via email as an attachment like all previous Bagle variants do. The email sender is spoofed to make it difficult to trace it back. Once the file attachment is run, the worm installs a backdoor trojan on the computer to enable remote administration. It seems that the worm author plans to create a large spam server farm which can be used to send tons of emails within a very short time. The installed trojan opens the port 1234 to receive control commands.

Bagle.AF can be detected and removed with a² using the latest signature updates. The a² personal background guard blocks the worm immediately if it is started.

A more detailed description of the worm can be found at the a² Malware Database:
http://www.emsisoft.com/en/malware/?Worm.Win32.Bagle.AF


Sincerely yours,

Your a² Team
http://www.emsisoft.com

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[wenwilder]

Just a quick note - Worm.Win32.Bagle.AF should be Beagle not Bagle. :)

There was a typo when the information was released and that typo is now alllll over the internet lol

Gotta love the information highway!

[mikmik]

ust be one of those polymorphic worms.

One day it is a dog, the next, a bun. Still to come: musical instrument.

But all the names are for the same virus, no?

Symantec, Mcafee, etc all use different names for them at times for example:

W32.Beagle.A@mm is a mass-mailing worm that accesses remote Web sites and sends email to any addresses it finds using its own SMTP engine.
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I-Worm.Bagle [Kaspersky], WORM_BAGLE.A [Trend], W32/Bagle-A [Sophos], W32/Bagle@MM [McAfee], Win32.Bagle.A [Computer Associates]