posted on Friday, March 19, 2004 2:34 PM
by
demiliani
New Bagel virus variants out...
An orrible notice... seems that new variants of the Bagel virus are out in these days...
These new variants (Bagle.q, Bagle.r, Bagle.s, and Bagle.t) exploit a hole in unpatched Windows systems and infects computers without having to convince users to open a file attachment.
They use the Internet Explorer Object Data Remote Execution vulnerability and this causes email attachments to automatically open. Terrible...
What you've to do... you can monitor the activity on port 2556 (which is open by Bagel) to check the virus presence... but the best solutions is obviously one: Patch your sistem!!!!
UPDATE: I've forgot to signal where to find the patch... here: Cumulative Patch for Internet Explorer (822925)