- Panda Software warns of the dangerous new Bagle.AF worm -
Virus Alerts, by Panda Software http://www.pandasoftware.com
Madrid, July 16 2004 - PandaLabs has detected the presence of Bagle.AF, a
new and dangerous variant of the well-known Bagle virus. Incidents involving
this new variant have already been reported.
Bagle.AF reaches computers in an email message with highly variable
characteristics. The address of the sender is false and the message text, in
HTML format, includes messages like "Read the attach", "Your file is
attached" or "More info is in attach", among others.
The attached file, which includes the worm's code, may come under many names
including "Information", "Details" or "text_document", and could have an
.exe .scr, .com, or .cpl extension. Sometimes, this attachment could arrive
in a password protected Zip file. In these cases, the message also includes
the text: "For security reasons attached file is password protected. The
password is: XXXXX" (X is a random number).
