Anti-virus researchers have uncovered bit of a bitter battle between virus authors.
Some of the programming code found inside the recent Bagle viruses reveals what appears to be a verbal onslaught, aimed at the author(s) of the NetSky worm.
A line of the offending (and offensive) text found in the Bagle virus read,
"Hey,NetSky, **** off you bitch, don't ruine our bussiness, wanna start a war?"
Equally as bad, the MyDoom virus contained a hidden message which reads,
"to netsky's creator(s): imho, skynet is a decentralized peer-to-peer neural network. we have seen P2P in Slapper in Sinit only. they may be called skynets, but not your shitty app."
Graham Cluley, Senior Technology Consultant for Sophos said,
"The Bagle and Netsky worms are battling for pole position at the moment as the viruses hitting end users the hardest. Clearly the author of the Bagle worms is unimpressed that Netsky is stealing some of the limelight and most of the headlines. This skirmish is a nuisance for computer users, of course, who are seeing the worms clogging up their email systems. Everybody should ensure they are running the very latest anti-virus updates and filtering dangerous content at the email gateway."
We somehow doubt this will be the end of these virus variants.
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