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  • Bagle eats Netsky as the worm turns

    The Bagle worm has turned into a killer: the latest variants are designed to search and destroy copies of Netsky.

  • Half of Australian virus infections attributed to Netsky

    Variants of the Netsky worm account for almost half of all malware infections in Australia, according to Trend Micro's January 2005 Virus Roundup.

  • Worm authors talk trash

    Security researchers have discovered that the authors of MyDoom and Bagle are exchanging insults with the author of NetSky, using text hidden inside their virus code.

  • Netsky copycat sparks search for source code

    Antivirus companies are trawling the Internet looking for evidence that the author of Netsky has published the worm's source code, after new variants were discovered

  • Netsky.D spreading like wildfire

    Another Internet worm, dubbed Netsky.D, has been spreading quickly throughout the world since yesterday, clogging e-mail systems and threatening to break the MyDoom record in its contamination speed.

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