New worm~~~~~ -----Original Message----- From: information_technology-admin@private [mailto:information_technology-admin@private] On Behalf Of InfraGard Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 7:01 AM To: Information Technology Subject: [Information_technology] Daily News 1/21/04 January 20, Associated Press - 'Bagle' e-mail worm spreading fast. A new Internet virus was spreading fast throughout Asia, Australia and Europe but computer security experts were divided on the seriousness of the threat from the "Bagle" worm. Experts expected some impact in the U.S. when people returned to work Tuesday, January 20, after a holiday weekend. The "Bagle" or "Beagle" worm arrives in an e-mail with the subject "hi" and the word "test" in the message body. If the accompanying attachment is executed, the worm is unleashed and tries to send itself to all e-mails listed in the user's address book. Sometimes the attachment is designed to look like a Microsoft calculator, said David Perry, spokesman for antivirus software firm Trend Micro Inc. The virus only affects machines running Microsoft Windows operating systems. The worm started spreading on Monday, January 19, and most corporations have already protected themselves against it, Perry said. Carey Nachenberg, chief architect of Symantec Research Labs, said home users, not corporations, were most at risk because companies had protected themselves quickly. "We could see this fizzle out in several days," Nachenberg said. "Or we could also see a lot of people infected" if they don't update their antivirus software. Source: http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/01/19/bagle.virus.ap/index.html Internet Alert Dashboard Current Alert Levels AlertCon: 1 out of 4 https://gtoc.iss.net Security Focus ThreatCon: 1 out of 4 http://analyzer.securityfocus.com/ Current Virus and Port Attacks Virus: #1 Virus in the United States: WORM_KLEZ.H Source: http://wtc.trendmicro.com/wtc/wmap.html, Trend World Micro Virus Tracking Center [Infected Computers, North America, Past 24 hours, #1 in United States] Top 10 Target Ports 6129 (dameware), 1434 (ms?sql?m), 135 (epmap), 137 (netbios?ns), 901 (realsecure), 80 (www), 445(microsoft?ds), 1433 (ms?sql?s), 20168 (???), 3410(???) Source: http://isc.incidents.org/top10.html; Internet Storm Center _______________________________________________ Information_technology mailing list Information_technology@listserv
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