Messagelabs said on Tuesday that although it has intercepted more than 2.5 million copies of the most recent Bagle variant, the damage could have been far more severe had the same worm been released two years ago.
It is not only the staff at RMIT Labs who have been busy, virus writers worked hard too.
Microsoft is cautiously optimistic that attempts to spread new variants of the Bagle virus exploiting an older vulnerability in its e-mail products will not be successful.
Around 3,300 new malicious codes have been detected by security software provider Trend Micro from 1-20 August this year.
The recent surge in worms could be part of an underground battle to hijack computers for use in Internet crimes, some security experts say -- but others aren't convinced.
Microsoft is cautiously optimistic that attempts to spread new variants of the Bagle virus exploiting an older vulnerability in its e-mail products will not be successful.
It is not only the staff at RMIT Labs who have been busy, virus writers worked hard too.
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