[virusinfo] Sophos Anti-Virus IDE alert: W32/Bagle-Zip

  • From: "Mike" <mikebike@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: virusinfo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 07:53:00 -0700

From; Sophos Alert System:

Name: W32/Bagle-Zip
Aliases: Win32/Bagle.gen.zip
Type: Win32 worm
Date: 29 April 2004

A virus identity (IDE) file which provides protection is
available now from the Sophos website, and is incorporated into
the April 2004 (3.80) release of Sophos Anti-Virus.

Sophos has received several reports of this worm from the wild.


Note: Sophos has been detecting W32/Bagle-Zip since 14:26 GMT on
04 March 2004 and has issued this updated IDE to improve
detection.

Information about W32/Bagle-Zip can be found at:
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32baglezip.html
Description 
Sophos Anti-Virus detects as W32/Bagle-Zip the password-protected archive
files created by W32/Bagle-F, W32/Bagle-G, W32/Bagle-H, W32/Bagle-I,
W32/Bagle-J, W32/Bagle-K (ZIP archives), W32/Bagle-N, W32/Bagle-O (ZIP and
RAR archives), W32/Bagle-W and W32/Bagle-AA.  

Download the IDE file from:
http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/baglezip.ide

Download all the IDE files available for the current version of 
Sophos Anti-Virus in a single compressed file. The file is
available in two formats:

Zip file:
http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/ides.zip

Self-extracting file:
http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/ides.exe

Read about how to use IDE files at
http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/using.html

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