Rounding out the last half of the alphabet with Bagle.Q, Bagle.R, Bagle.S and Bagle.T variants, the latest worms in a long string of malware have become more sophisticated and sneaky, leaving security experts to ponder what might come next from the evolving family of malicious code. Reports from antivirus and security vendors indicate the latest Bagle variants are now propagating themselves using auto-execute attacks that could give users an infection if they simply preview e-mail, rather than requiring users to open an attached executable.
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Bagle Worm Variants Infect PCs Automatically
Posted by: Jay Lyman March 19, 2004 12:47 PMRounding out the last half of the alphabet with Bagle.Q, Bagle.R, Bagle.S and Bagle.T variants, the latest worms in a long string of malware have become more sophisticated and sneaky, leaving security experts to ponder what might come next from the evolving family of malicious code. Reports from antivirus and security vendors indicate the latest Bagle variants are now propagating themselves using auto-execute attacks that could give users an infection if they simply preview e-mail, rather than requiring users to open an attached executable.