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Bagle/Beagle Variant Includes Source Code

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Re:Scripting exploit by I+confirm+I'm+not+a · · Score: 5, Insightful

    VBscript or WSH which is inherently Open Source on Windows?

    <nitpick>Open-source is a type of licensing; VBScript is a language, and WSH a technology, not licensing regimes. Typically the source-code for a VBScript app is distributed with the application, but not necessarily - it might be obfuscated - but might well be subject to proprietary licensing restrictions.

    Just because you can see the source code doesn't make it open source. Open source implies certain freedoms that are additional to being able to see the code: the right to modify and redistribute the code, for example.

    </nitpick>

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  2. That's to make prosecution more difficult by Advocadus+Diaboli · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So far you could spot a viurs author by the "evidence" that he had the source code of the virus on his PC. Now everybody has the source. I guess we need bigger jails soon.

  3. Re:CVS w by mwood · · Score: 4, Insightful

    *sigh* Please don't release another anti-virus-virus. The last one was at least as much a pain as the one it was supposed to cure.