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'Bagle' Worm Heading For A Windows PC Near You

Posted by timothy on from the opens-soon-nationwide dept.

mrSinclair writes "the 'Bagle' or 'Beagle' worm is expected to hit the U.S. by midweek, probably Tuesday as many employees return from a three-day weekend." He points to this Washington Post story (via Yahoo!), which describes the Windows mass-mailing worm as being transmitted via email as an .exe attachment and as installing "a program that lets attackers connect to infected machines, install malicious software or steal files." The article says Bagle has been detected in more than 100 countries. Other readers have sent in links to coverage at the BBC and at SearchSecurity.com.

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  1. Trend by can_dcm · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Internet Security, PC-Cillin, whatever they are calling things these days.

  2. Microsoft "chose" nothing by RLiegh · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    they inherited the "executable" syntax from cpm and qdos.

  3. no, that's akin to linux mounting a drive by RLiegh · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    with the exec[1] flag set. That has nothing to do with the permissions of individual files.

    [1]actually, you'd normally see that only in reverse: a drive mounted noexec, meaning nothing can execute from that drive.