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The new Bagel Virus takes the cake. (Update: Also known as Beagle, Bagle, etc.)

It comes as an EXE attachment (which would be blocked by all current versions of Outlook and Outlook Express) with the subject "Test" and the message body "Test, yep."

It doesn't even attempt to socially engineer the user into opening the attachment (no celebrity photos, no fake Microsoft security patches, etc) and yet the distribution is listed as "High."

Comments

  • Anonymous
    January 19, 2004
    Actually, based on the dozen copies that I got from a prominent VB developer, Outlook doesn't block this one. At least, I'm seeing attachments with .exe extensions rather than the "Outlook has blocked potentially harmful attachments" message. I haven't bothered to try to figure out how it works.
  • Anonymous
    January 19, 2004
    That's where those emails started coming from Today :) O2k3 has been blocking their attachments for me.
  • Anonymous
    January 19, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    January 19, 2004
    Interesting. I'm also running Outlook 2003.

    As to why people click on things: people are morons. Simple as that. Yes, that goes double for the VB developer I didn't name.
  • Anonymous
    January 19, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    January 19, 2004
    Users can't resist temptation :p

    They click and click and click but forget to think
  • Anonymous
    January 20, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    January 20, 2004
    Amen to that.

    Although the interesting thing in this case is why they open the attachment. They are not compelled to by the text of the message.

    Perhaps another thing we can add to the food-pellet theory is that people have learnt that if someone sends you an attachment then you're probably supposed to open it, even if it has a random name, you have no idea what it does, and the e-mail doesn't actually ask you to open it.
  • Anonymous
    January 20, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    May 20, 2004
    Regarding Users: By the time you make something idiot-proof, they'll make a better idiot.
  • Anonymous
    September 26, 2007
    PingBack from http://mailowl.co.za/2007/02/19/death-by-dialog-boxes/