Brunet Escapes The Wrath Of `Bagle' Worm
By Maya Salleh

Bandar Seri Begawan - Brunei's internet seems to have escaped the wrath of the so-called "Bagle" or "Beagle" worm that hit big countries.

According to sources at BruNet, there has been no reported cases here, though they are investigating any occurrences.

Instances of a new computer worm named 'Bagle' or `Beagle' have been reported in 139 countries; China, Korea and Australia appeared to be the hardest hit, according to the washingpost.com.

The 'Bagle’ worm works like other worms, where it is delivered as a file attachment to an email message using an unsophisticated subject heading of simply `Hi,' or `test :)’ with message text that consists primarily of random characters, and with a randomly-named executable as the attached file.

It is believed that if the attachment were opened, it would give the worm's as yet unidentified sender control over the victim's computers.

However its surface in the United States last weekend did not cause administrators many problems in spite that it did render some damage.

It was assured that it was not a devastating attack on computer systems unlike previous worms such as 'MSBlast' and 'SQL Slammer' which were spread late last year which caused very serious damage to computer systems that took months to remedy.

The washingtonpost.com was also quoted as saying that some security experts have publicly worried that `Bagle' was actually just a test version '" and that a more sophisticated, final version might be on the way.

Meanwhile, the Telecommunications Department Public Relations Unit, the Chief Technician (Corporate Communications), Hjh Ismawati Hj. Ismail, announced that the BruNet technical team is still investigating the matter and so far there has been no reported case. -- Courtesy of Radio Television Brunei 

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