New Bagle Worm

Hi,

There is news of of a new strain of Bagle which has been spammed on the 31st August. It arrrives in calc.exe rather than photo exe.

More info at http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/

Looked at VPS history for Avast early this morning and can’t see it but I am sure it will be added very shortly.

Cheers

Jlo

Hi,

More info at http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/bagle_ak.shtml

Cheers

Jlo

Today several infected mails got through (VPS version 436) - containing W32/Bagle.dll.dr virii (McAfee name for it). I suppose this is the same Jlo was talking about.

Aren’t those detected as generic Bagle variants?

Regards,
Christian

No - they are not. The thing which comes via mail as foto.zip is a ‘downloader’ which tries to get the second part of the virus from many web sites. Unfortunately, on none of them this second part existed, so we have had big problem to receive a sample of the complete virus. Therefore it was added today in the morning with some delay.

Hope this helps
Pavel

It helps indeed :wink:
Thanks a lot…

Christian

I received the Foto.zip from my sister-in-law on Sept. l. I thought something was wrong because the from was different than it normally is also she would never have said foto she would have said Photo. I sent it to her and her hot mail said it contained a virus. My question I have avast and also symantec and neither said anything. If I would have checked on the attachment would avast have notified me. How do I manually scan an email message with avast.
Novice 2

Hi,

To manually scan right click on your mouse and click on ‘scan’

If you have internet mail running it should detect any incomming attachments (unless your VPS are out of date or its a very new virus)

Cheers

Jlo

???I must be missing a step. I tried right clicking and there was no scan to click on. I right clicked a message also an attachment and didn’t see scan anywhere. I would really like to learn how to do the scan manually.
Novice 2

Scan the folder where your email application stores the emails. That will do it.

You do understand that I am really a novice and don’t know what folder you are talking about? I will just keep trying until I get it.
Thanks

Hi Novice2,

If you click on ‘my documents’ or use ‘explorer’ you will see what looks like lots of ‘cases’ These are known as folders. You can create your own ‘folders’ and save files in them.

What Eddy was saying is right click on the folder you want to scan and then it will give you the opion in the ‘right click’ menu to scan the file.

Hope this helps.

Cheers

Jlo

Oh!! Thank you Jlo. I can understand that. Whew I thought I would never get it.
Jean

My Pleasure Jean.

Good luck.

Kind Regards

Jlo