Bagle/Beagle Variant Includes Source Code

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Bagle/Beagle Variant Includes Source Code

Posted by timothy on Tuesday July 6, 2004 @12:09AM from the let's-call-it-shared-source dept.

NASAdude writes "Sunday brought a lot of fireworks... and the release of two new Bagle/Beagle variants. One of the variants includes a copy of its source code as an attachment as it spreads via email. It is expected the inclusion of the source will result in numerous variants. It's been dubbed Beagle.Y and Beagle.Z by Symantec and Bagle.ad and Bagle.ae by McAfee. ZDNet ran a story that covers these new variants."

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new name by millahtime · 2004-07-06 00:11 · Score: 2, Funny

And it will be come to be known as beagle.painintheass

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CVS by BenBenBen · 2004-07-06 00:11 · Score: 4, Funny

beagle.sourceforge.net doesn't have it :(

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1. Re:CVS by akadruid · 2004-07-06 00:25 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Give us a chance, we're just updating the project page. I was going to upload it but the other l33t h4xorz say there's some gentlemen wearing black suits at the door...
  
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2. Re:CVS by jaavaaguru · 2004-07-06 00:45 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Do you know when the UltraSPARC port will be available? I've been feeling pretty left out...
  
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3. Re:CVS by dave_mcmillen · 2004-07-06 01:48 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Laugh if you will, but I for one applaud this new era of open source viruses . . . Wait . . . Oops, my "open source = good" reflex was triggered before my brain had a chance to think about it.
4. Re:CVS by dasmegabyte · 2004-07-06 02:38 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Brings new meaning to the term "viral licensing."
  
  *b'dum-chik*
  
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5. Re:CVS by VivianC · 2004-07-06 05:05 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Does anyone know if it is licensed under GPL or a BSD license? If I make modifications and distribute it, am I obligated to provide the source code to anyone who asks? I don't know if I want to risk contaminating my proprietary viruses with this open source virus.
  
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what about... by epicstruggle · 2004-07-06 00:13 · Score: 2, Funny

any news on beagle.mars?
epic

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1. Re:what about... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-06 00:34 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Tried to run it once, and it crashed.
Title by Sepper · 2004-07-06 00:14 · Score: 3, Funny

Reading title fast, I thought that NASA had released some source code... *sigh*

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1. Re:Title by akadruid · 2004-07-06 00:30 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Not everything space-related is NASA you insensitive clod! :)
  You can tell NASA's attempts from UK Universities with this simple test.
  Did space object in question:
  a. Crash and burn due to problems with the metric system or
  b. Vanish without trace
  
  If a then object is of NASA origin, if b, then non-NASA.
  Hope this helps clear up any confusion.
  
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Pretty please by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-06 00:17 · Score: 5, Funny

Can someone please make a variant that makes users regret not patching their systems? Like, overwrite the BIOS, turn ones into twos in all spreadsheet documents, delete all JPGs, MP3s and AVIs, send a resignation to boss@yourdomain.com and a log of your online banking transactions to the FCC, donate 10 bucks each to the KKK and THEN put up a screen which lists all that.
1. Re:Pretty please by JosKarith · 2004-07-06 00:49 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Nope. The best idea would be to search for .mp3's, or .jpg's that have a lot of "flesh tones" and corrupt them.
  After all, killing someone's OS is annoying, but deleting someone's pr0n collection is tantamount to declaration of war.
  Either that or randomly e-mail samples from said collection out as well as copies of itself with a header "Do you know what has hidden on his computer?"
  I really shouldn't be giving people ideas should I...
  
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2. Re:Pretty please by gosand · 2004-07-06 03:05 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Can someone please make a variant that makes users regret not patching their systems?
  Some ideas:
  It installs Linux on their system (let them figure out that dependency hell!) [note to self: make sure it isn't Debian, apt-get rocks]
  It makes their homepage default to Slashdot
  It sends an email to RMS every day saying "Aren't you the guy who created Linux?"
  
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How long... by rjw57 · 2004-07-06 00:17 · Score: 4, Funny

How long until SCO sues Bagle's author for copyright infringement....

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Shared source by Snaapy · 2004-07-06 00:20 · Score: 5, Funny

Funny.

If you try to google Bagle assembler "source code"

you'll get

Microsoft shares source code with students - ZDNet UK News
So MS was right... by stm2 · 2004-07-06 00:20 · Score: 1, Funny

If a virus is OSS, MS was right when said that OSS is a virus :)

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Re:ouch by DrEldarion · 2004-07-06 00:20 · Score: 4, Funny

It's okay, the source code is in assembler, so all the script kiddies will just look at it in confusion like it's some strange alien language.
Bagle.ad and Bagle.ae by paj1234 · 2004-07-06 00:29 · Score: 2, Funny

This is so boring. Soon we'll have Bagle.zzz.
The real question is... by atomic-penguin · 2004-07-06 00:29 · Score: 4, Funny

What license is it released under?

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1. Re:The real question is... by Eradicator2k3 · 2004-07-06 00:50 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  It's being released under the SCO "Indian Giver" license. This allows TSCOG to make numerous contributions to the source and then re-release it. This is followed later with complaints as to how much of TSCOG's IP has made it into the virus. TSCOG will then threaten to sue "end-users" (read: victims) of Bagle.SCO, unless they're willing to pay $699 ($1399 after 13 Oct) per CPU for the privilege of having licensed version of the virus.
  
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Re:Another excuse for MS? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-06 00:44 · Score: 5, Funny

Check the EULA that comes with the virus, it's Shared Source, not Open Source!
Slap a GPL on it quickly! by Domini · 2004-07-06 00:47 · Score: 2, Funny

And what about a copyright notice on Virii in future? Could MacAfee be sued for reverse-engineering a virus?
-grin-
Give new meaning to the term "viral licensing" by m0RpHeus · 2004-07-06 00:58 · Score: 2, Funny

One of the variants includes a copy of its source code as an attachment as it spreads via email.

Just what we need. An Open Source Virus. And if it is somehow GPLed, we'll *really* have viral licensing. ;)

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Re:Scripting exploit by johannesg · 2004-07-06 00:58 · Score: 5, Funny

Don't you suppose the right to redistribute is granted pretty much automatically for a virus?
This is not an attack by HBPiper · 2004-07-06 01:02 · Score: 2, Funny

Its a resume!

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Want to cause problems? use port 80 by 192939495969798999 · 2004-07-06 01:11 · Score: 2, Funny

If someone wanted to really cause problems, they'd modify that thing to use port 80 to spread itself, and disguise the packets as /. traffic. What admin would notice if it was a virus, or just some new story on /.?

D'OH!

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Didn't Linus predict this? by Minwee · 2004-07-06 01:15 · Score: 5, Funny

"Only wimps use tape backup. Real men just include their important stuff in a Windows worm and let the rest of the world mirror it."
Re:ouch by Rithiur · 2004-07-06 01:18 · Score: 5, Funny

And in the other news today, new variant of the Beagle virus, Beagle.goatse, opens a easily abusable back door in your system. However, so far it seems that hackers have been unwilling to use this hole to breach into our computer.
Re:Seen it... by ScouseMouse · 2004-07-06 01:20 · Score: 2, Funny

Yep, i'm a bloke, but i'm also an amateur psycologist, and i also work as a geek in a law firm, i think that means i am not technically a human any more because I sold my soul or something.

:P
Could someone mail me a copy? by alteridem · 2004-07-06 01:45 · Score: 4, Funny

Oh wait, there are a dozen in my inbox already. God you guys are quick, thanks ;)
Re:Scripting exploit by martinthebrit · 2004-07-06 02:04 · Score: 3, Funny
Ah Ha. I see the music industry's latest ploy
1. Write self-spreading virus
2. Distribute virus with standard copyright agreement and code
3. ???
4. Sue infected users for copyright infringement and profit!!!
Re:Don't worry by johnkoer · 2004-07-06 04:15 · Score: 4, Funny

If it's encrypted, how did they find out it's source code? They must have already cracked it.

And the author has already filed his DMCA suit against them for cracking his encryption.

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