Bagle/Beagle Variant Includes Source Code

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."

Comments

CVS

[BenBenBen]

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

Re:CVS

[dave_mcmillen]

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.

Re:CVS

[dasmegabyte]

Brings new meaning to the term "viral licensing."

*b'dum-chik*

Title

[Sepper]

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

Re:Title

[akadruid]

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.

Pretty please

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:Pretty please

[JosKarith]

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...

How long...

[rjw57]

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

Shared source

[Snaapy]

Funny.

If you try to google Bagle assembler "source code"

you'll get

Microsoft shares source code with students - ZDNet UK News

Re:ouch

[DrEldarion]

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.

The real question is...

[atomic-penguin]

What license is it released under?

Re:what about...

[Anonymous Coward]

Tried to run it once, and it crashed.

Re:Another excuse for MS?

[Anonymous Coward]

Check the EULA that comes with the virus, it's Shared Source, not Open Source!

Re:Scripting exploit

[johannesg]

Don't you suppose the right to redistribute is granted pretty much automatically for a virus?

Didn't Linus predict this?

[Minwee]

"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

[Rithiur]

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.

Could someone mail me a copy?

[alteridem]

Oh wait, there are a dozen in my inbox already. God you guys are quick, thanks ;)

Re:Scripting exploit

[martinthebrit]

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

[johnkoer]

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.