New Bagle variants combine spam, Trojans, ComputerWorld, 1 Mar 2005

“The new Bagle variant, Bagle.BB, is spreading in massive spam e-mail campaigns, but it breaks with computer worm orthodoxy. Unlike earlier forms of Bagle, the new variant sends out e-mails with Trojan horse programs attached to them, as opposed to copies of the virus file. The new attack could be the first of more to come, as malicious hackers turn to spam and stealthy Trojan programs to evade detection, according to one antivirus expert. The new Bagle variant appeared early today in a massive spam e-mail campaign that dropped copies of the new Trojan horse programs in mailboxes worldwide, according to Andrew Lee, chief technology officer at Eset LLC, a San Diego-based antivirus company.�

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