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W32/Bagle.l@MM

Mar 9, 2004 10:29AM PST

Virus Information
Discovery Date: 03/09/2004
Origin: Unknown
Length: Varies
Type: Virus
SubType: E-mail

This is a mass-mailing worm with the following characteristics:

contains its own SMTP engine to construct outgoing messages
harvests email addresses from the victim machine
the From: address of messages is spoofed
attachment can be a password-protected zip file, with the password included in the message body.
contains a remote access component (notification is sent to hacker)
copies itself to folders that have the phrase shar in the name (such as common peer-to-peer applications; KaZaa, Bearshare, Limewire, etc)

More: http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_101088.htm

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