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VIRUS ALERT: Released by TrendMicro on Saturday, March 27th.

As of March 26, 2004 2:15 AM PST, TrendLabs has declared a Medium Risk Virus Alert to control the spread of WORM_BAGLE.U. TrendLabs has received several infection reports indicating that this malware is spreading in US, Europe, Japan, and Korea.

This BAGLE variant spreads via email. Its messages are blank with randomly-named .EXE attachments. Received samples are compressed under FSG.

TrendLabs will be releasing the following EPS deliverables:

TMCM Outbreak Prevention Policy 100
Official Pattern Release 839
Damage Cleanup Template 300

For more information on WORM_BAGLE.U, you can visit our Web site at:

http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=WORM_BAGLE.U


IMPORTANT LINKS:

Virus Definitions:
http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/
http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp

Cleanup Tools:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/tools.list.html

http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=vrt