Bagel.B virus starts to spread

Bagel.B is new worm on an international circuit
The worm has already been detected in France, Germany, USA and Chile, according to Trend Micro. Sophos, too, says it has already received numerous reports in the public domain of Bagel. Bagel.B, otherwise known as Tanx-A, is a memory resident virus with its own SMTP engine. It opens a back door on infected computers that can allow hackers remote access to the system.

It arrives with the subject line 'ID' followed by various random characters and the message text 'Yours ID'. The attached exe file has a random name and, if run, will harvest email addresses from the local system which it uses in the To and From fields of the email by which it spreads itself.

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