Bagle Comes Back

Bagle is back and security industry source said that the new development and the spread of e-mail worms, may cause headache, Windows administrators all summer.

Bagle virus first appeared in January and has been modified so many times that anti-virus companies have their second trip through the alphabet marker variants. In the July 4 weekend, two new variants appeared, and bagle.ae bagle.ad.

Bagle virus is the most famous, because of the mass-mailing worm accounted for a lot of e-mail headers, like flood control Re: document or Re: Thank you. Its back door open, the Bagle virus is considered to have been designed to create large networks of zombie machines to distributed denial-of-service attacks or send spam.

What is new in the latest variant is that they deposit a copy of the Bagle virus source code on infected me. This is widely believed to be an author of the Bagle efforts to hide his tracks (source code on your computer looks bad when the investigators come knocking on the door). A variant of the MyDoom author did the same thing earlier in the year. It occurred in Netsky is better, although not necessarily help the alleged author. A 18-year-old man arrested in Germany and charged with writing James Sasser earlier this year. The same person, in writing for the Netsky, too.

Netsky circumstances, can be particularly concerned about the authors of the Bagle virus, because the worms author may know each other. Bagle and Netsky virus each containing criticism of skills behind each others code.

Bagle source of the assembly to write that part of the author of the complex. With the source code in hand, however, creating new varieties entered the realm of the script kiddies expertise. Perhaps we can look forward to the third through the alphabetical order around the Horn Bagle virus variants for this summer.