bagle-i worm

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Mar 2 19:21:07 GMT 2004


Please can you put an example somewhere I can get it with a web browser?

At 17:38 02/03/2004, you wrote:
>Won't help
>
>ClamAV does spot this stuff though..
>
>Also Julian's latest 4.28.2-2 doesn't catch it either (even though it
>should!). I guess he's got real work on at the moment, or scratching his
>head as to why it didn't work :-)
>
>
>--
>Martin Hepworth
>Snr Systems Administrator
>Solid State Logic
>Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>
>
>Marco Obaid wrote:
>>The worm DOES provide the user with the password :)
>>Some of our users, as little techie as they are, managed to extract and
>>execute the zip file ...
>>
>>Sophos, in my case, has been able to intercept Bagel A through F. For some
>>reason, it failed to do so for the Bagle.I. I am upgrading Sophos to the
>>March
>>relesse and will Upgrade MS to latest-stable. Then I will test if Bagle.I
>>will
>>make it through this time before I re-allow zip attachments on my site.
>>
>>Quoting Stephen Conway <sconway at WLNET.COM>:
>>
>>
>>>Good day:
>>>
>>>Correct me if I am wrong, but if the zip is password protected, how would
>>>the end user open it w/o a password?  So should I be worried if some get
>>>through?  We have clients with slow Satellite connections, so it is
>>>difficult for them to upgrade their virus defs, so we are there only line of
>>>defense.  Is there a way for Sophos to scan password protected zip files?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>SC
>
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