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| The Netsky worms are named after the Skynet
corporation from the movie The Terminator. |
Please note: some customers may find some of the language
used by the viruses described below offensive.
Sophos researchers have discovered that the recently discovered
W32/Bagle-J and
W32/Bagle-K worms
contain offensive messages directed at the prevalent Netsky mass-mailing
virus.
Hidden inside the Bagle-J worm's code is the following text,
which is never displayed.
Hey,NetSky, fuck off you bitch, don't ruine our
bussiness, wanna start a war?
Inside Bagle-K the following text is hidden:
Hey, NetSky, fuck off you bitch!
"The Bagle and Netsky worms are battling for pole position at
the moment as the viruses hitting end users the hardest," said
Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos. "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."
Meanwhile, the latest variant of the W32/MyDoom worm (W32/MyDoom-G) also has
opinions on Netsky. W32/MyDoom-G contains the following message
which is not displayed:
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.
Sophos recommends companies automatically update their corporate virus
protection, and filter attachments which may contain malicious code
at the email gateway.
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