McAfee today announced that the company’s Antivirus and Vulnerability Emergency Response Team (Avert) raised the risk assessment to medium on the recently discovered W32/Bagle.aq@MM, also known as the Bagle.aq worm. This new variant is a mass-mailing worm that comes in the form of a .zip file. To date, Avert has received over 150 reports of the virus since its discovery, being stopped or infecting users from the field — with most of the reports arriving from Brazil, Canada, France, the Netherlands, Taiwan and the United States.
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New Bagle Virus Making Rounds
Posted by: ECT News Security August 9, 2004 02:51 PMMcAfee today announced that the company’s Antivirus and Vulnerability Emergency Response Team (Avert) raised the risk assessment to medium on the recently discovered W32/Bagle.aq@MM, also known as the Bagle.aq worm. This new variant is a mass-mailing worm that comes in the form of a .zip file. To date, Avert has received over 150 reports of the virus since its discovery, being stopped or infecting users from the field — with most of the reports arriving from Brazil, Canada, France, the Netherlands, Taiwan and the United States.