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| Netsky virus removes Bagle as cyber war grows |
| Wednesday, March 03, 2004 at 19:21 by Rich Kavanagh |
The war between authors of recent viruses continues.
We reported earlier on the authors of the Bagle virus hitting out at the author(s) of the Netsky virus in a verbal onslaught.
Well, the author(s) of the latest variant of the Netsky virus has hit back.
Netsky-F has been released unto the wild and has been designed specifically to remove Bagle variants A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H and I.
The new Netsky virus appears to serve no other purpose than to kill the Bagle virus.
Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos said,
"The two worm authors are goading each other with taunts and malicious code to release more powerful versions of their viruses. We believe both authors may have access to an underground network consisting of thousands of compromised computers owned by innocent users, which are being exploited to launch every new version of their worms."
We recommend you keep your anti-virus software up to date at all times.
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| In a roundabout way this is a good thing, they will destroy one another, whilst any virus is a bad virus, this will help limit the damage as it'll target and destory the verious viruse form the large amount of poeple that are unaware or don't know how to protect them selfs. |
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| I have to strongly disagree.
This will cause network administrators no end of grief.
It'll also cause no end of wasted bandwidth and network traffic and confuse end users no end, who in turn will contact their IT Dept asking why they can't open an attachment or why they've got 200 emails from someone they've never heard of. Or why people are contacting them accusing them of sending viruses (spoofed From: addresses).
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| I agree with Rich, I recently had to redo my OS because everything went all wrong. I was so careless with not updating my virus software, but I am now up and running with protection. I am now trying to salvage my one particular email address. I spent daily hours retrieving hundreds of virus potential emails, spam and accusations of sending out this virus. Wow how oblivious I was. |
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