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Bagle latches on to antispam ploy

edited March 2004 in Science & Tech
Three new Bagle variants discovered over the weekend differ from previous incarnations by using an antispam trick to try to avoid detection by antivirus software. Experts believe however the attempt won't succeed.

[blockquote]But now the Bagle author has released three new versions (N, O and P) of the worm that produce the password in the form of a graphic or picture file, so a simple text scan of the infected e-mail will not find the password. This trick is commonly used by Web sites to hide e-mail addresses from Web bots that trawl the Internet looking for potential spam targets.
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  • KwitkoKwitko Sheriff of Banning (Retired) By the thing near the stuff Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    I've seen examples of the new strain but our ISP's antispam has been blocking them no problem.
  • pseudonympseudonym Michigan Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    That darn virus was all over my computer, but luckily I deleted the reg key before anything bad happened, and then got my virus checker back up and running. Haven't seen this new one yet though.
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