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Virus-Writers Declare War On Each Other

March 3, 2004

The creators of Bagle, Mydoom and Netsky exchange pleasantries. In the space of 3 hours on 3rd March 2004, Kaspersky Labs detected 5 new modifications of notorious malicious programs: Bagle.i and Bagle.j, Mydoom.f and Mydoom.g, and Netsky.f..

"It's hard to imagine a more comical situation: a handful of virus writers are playing unpunished with the Internet, and not one member of the Internet community can take decisive action to stop to this lawlessness,' commented Eugene Kaspersky, Head of Anti-Virus Research at Kaspersky Lab. 'The problem is not that no-one wants to change the situation, but that the current architecture of the Internet is completely inconsistent with information security.'

Virus-Writers Declare War On Each Other

The creators of Bagle, Mydoom and Netsky exchange pleasantries. In the space of 3 hours on 3rd March 2004, Kaspersky Labs detected 5 new modifications of notorious malicious programs: Bagle.i and Bagle.j, Mydoom.f and Mydoom.g, and Netsky.f..
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