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Rubrik: Virenwarnung/Aktuelle Meldungen Central
Command: Virus Advisory: New Variations of Computer Worm Worm/Bagle It
is Critical to be Running Up-to-date Antivirus Protection (02.03.04)
- Central Command announces the discovery of variants of Internet worm Bagle.
These new aggressive Internet worms are spreading globally and multiple
variations have been detected within last 24 hours. "The three
variations detected within the last 24 hours indicate that the virus creator
is attempting to get his worm to spread by challenging the ability of virus
protection systems to adapt to detect his latest modifications," said
Keith Peer president and CEO of Central Command, Inc.
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"Our
Emergency Virus Response Team known as EVRT is continually responding by
updating Vexira Antivirus to protect its customers. Based on the aggressive
nature of these modifications we have scaled the EVRT to be adding more
detection for the variants of Bagle throughout the night as needed. It is
critical to be running up-to-date antivirus protection." Some common characteristics of the latest variations of the Bagle worm
family are:
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Installs files into the operating system directory
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Contains it own SMTP email technology
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Modifies registry keys
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Opens a TCP/IP port to allow unauthorized access to the
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infected computer
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Attempts to shutdown the ability of some antivirus programs
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to function normally
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Collects email addresses from various files contained on
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the infected computer
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Fakes the sender email address
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Uses social engineering tricks to entice recipients to open
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the zip attachment Central
Command Kontakt: Steven Sundermeier Tel. (001- 330) 723 2062 x204, Fax (001-330) 722 6517 E-Mail: ssundermeier@centralcommand.com
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