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PRESS
RELEASE
Oslo, 17 February 2004
Norman Data
Defense Systems alerts:
New Internet worm W32/ Bagle.B is rapidly spreading
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Norman Data Defense Systems,
a specialist in the field of data security, today issued
an alert against the new worm W32/ Bagle.B. This worm is
now spreading very fast in several countries around the
world. It arrives at the email clients as "randomly
generated string of characters and then" ….thanks.
Norman's current risk evaluation of the new threat is High
risk.
Norman SandBox v2 detects this worm as "W32/MALWARE"
and quarantines it. For more information please look
in Norman Data Defense Systems virus warning list on
http://www.norman.com.
Characteristics of the new malicious program
Email subject: "ID + "randomly generated characters" and
then" ...thanks
Email body start with: Yours…"and then random characters"
Email attachment: "Randomly generated file name".exe
More information about this worm is available from Norman
Data Defense System's web site:
http://www.norman.com.
Recommendations
Norman Data Defense Systems definitions files from
Tuesday, 17 February 2004 have support for the worm.
Norman Data Defense Systems recommends corporate and home
users to immediately update installed antivirus products
with new definitions files that detect this threat.
We recommend users without protection to download and
install an antivirus program immediately.
For further
information, please contact
SAV25
Data Systems
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