Virus Writers Use Internet Worms for War of Words

Virus Writers

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The creators of the Netsky, MyDoom and Bagle e-mail viruses have taken to exchanging insults in what amounts to a war of words in computer code between rival hackers, anti-virus experts said on Wednesday.

"It almost seems like they are playing a war of one-upmanship," Belthoff said. "They could be jealous over the media attention the others are getting."

The latest version of Netsky, dubbed Netsky.F, has a message in the code that says "Bagle - you are a looser!!!! (sic)" and an earlier version says: "MyDoom.F is a thief of our idea!"

Code in Mydoom.F and Bagle.I and Bagle.J addresses Netsky's creator directly, using expletives. One message tells Netsky: "don't ruine our bussiness, wanna start a war?"

lol thats funny.

Hilarious.

haha.. weird and funny

funny, although they are playing a dangerious game hahaha

I got my first virus today!
its been like over a year since a got a virus. it was the bagle.j
they e-mail looked really good. I will admit i fell for it till i saw the attached *.exe. then i just decided to test my McAfee. it worked. Here the Text of the e-mail to warn you guys: (My E-mail server is Westniagara.com):


Dear user, the management of Westniagara.com mailing system wants to let you know that,

Your e-mail account will be disabled because of improper using in next three days, if you are still wishing to use it, please, resign your account information.

Advanced details can be found in attached file.

Attached file protected with the password for security reasons. Password is 81246.

The Management,
The Westniagara.com team http://www.westniagara.com


that really threw me off cause I own Westniagara.com
Great virus, I fell for the e-mail, not the attachment.

wow, that's pretty good...

The same case with my dad, he was checking his msu mail... I fell for it too even though I didn't get to read the included message, which wouldn't have helped. He entered the password and it seemed to be sending the virus to everyone in his contact list. Unfortunately he deleted the email. When we checked his email again there was an email from his manager telling him not to download and execute the attachment (.zip with password). Luckily his computer is fine and something good came out of it, he finally has an antivirus installed (Antivir). He's been without one for maybe 3 years and it only found 19 infected files (56k).

haha.. weird..