Bot herders issue patches to zombie computers

[dbarrow]

http://www.spamdailynews.com/publish/Bot_herders_issue_patches_to_zombie_computers.asp

New updates to the Bagle worm appeared on thousands of the infected PCs this Sunday night and began downloading a tool that spammers could use in order to send unwanted e-mails, according to Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer for F-Secure.

* self updating virus... now there's a unique new idea!

[Terry Hanushek]

Doug

A sign of the gang's sophistication is that they've designed the system so that each download of the revised code is different from the last. That is making it harder for anti-virus companies to combat it.
Another bad sign.

With constantly changing profiles, heuristics will become increasingly important in the fight against malware infections. :frusty:

Terry