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Date:         Mon, 19 Jan 2004 10:23:37 -0700
Reply-To:     Bob Stevens <mtbiker62@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Bob Stevens <mtbiker62@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      NVC-A Heads-up on a virus: W32/Bagle-mm
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Hoping this is useful, helpful.

Bob Stevens

Subject: MessageLabs Intelligence virus alert: W32/Bagle-mm, HIGH LEVEL W32/Bagle-mm spreading rapidly During 18th and 19th January 2004, MessageLabs, the email security company, intercepted a significant number of copies of a new virus known as W32/Bagle-mm. The majority of intercepted copies have been sent from Australia.

Name: W32/Bagle-mm Number of copies intercepted so far: 45,000 Time & Date first Captured: 18th Jan 2004, 11.36 GMT Origin of first intercepted copy: Germany General The worm arrives as an attachment to an email and has a random filename, with a .exe extension.

W32/Bagle-mm searches the infected machine for email addresses and then uses its own SMTP engine to send itself to the addresses found.

Email Characteristics Subject: Hi Text: Test =) <random chars> -- Test, yep.

Attachment: <Random characters>.exe Size: 15 kilobytes

Detection

MessageLabs detected this virus proactively, using its unique and patented SkepticT predictive heuristics technology.

For further information, please visit the MessageLabs website at: www.messagelabs.com/viruseye


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