News Bagle virus hides as calculator

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    From the Beeb:

    Warnings are being issued about the rapidly spreading Bagle Windows worm.
    The virus poses as a test message and so far has tricked people in 87 countries into opening it and helping it spread.

    Bagle plunders address books for e-mail addresses and uses an in-built mail program to send itself to new victims.

    It also tells its creator about infected computer and tries to open a backdoor that a malicious hacker could use to take control of the machine.


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