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Security Protection - Harry Waldron (CS)

Security Best Practices, Breaking News, & Updates

Sober.AA and Bagle.HR - New Variants emerge

While these are among the oldest virus families circulating, the authors continue to develop new variants and even innovate occassionally. Developments for either of these 2 variants should be watched.

Sober.AA - Spammed in German and English versions
http://secunia.com/virus_information/37435/email-wormw32sober.aa/
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/email-worm_w32_sober_aa.shtml

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EMAIL to Avoid

These e-mail messages may appear to come from the following senders: Admin, Hostmaster, Postmaster, Webmaster

Body: Your eMail has occurred an unknown error on our Server.
Please read your mail and check the text. The full email is attached!

Attachment: Mail_Data.zip


Bagle.HR - New downloader installs Rootkit
http://secunia.com/virus_information/37422/email-wormw32bagle.hr/

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Email-Worm:W32/Bagle.HR is a trojan-downloader with rootkit technology
Posted: Apr 11 2007, 07:22 PM by Harry Waldron | with no comments