New Bagle damages security software

The variant, BagleDl-L, is a Trojan horse that damages security application

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"Any Trojan horse which turns off your antivirus or firewall can open you up to further attack, even by very old viruses," Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos, said in a statement. "This Trojan horse is aiming to take advantage of people's reflex reaction when they receive an executable file via email. Users who want to install software on their computer should be receiving it from their IT department, not from friends at other companies or potentially dangerous spam mailings."

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This is one more reason to have a forward defence to your home computer too. Your ISP and your hosting company ought to have a virus filter and a spam filter to your email accounts and your ISP ought to have a firewall to your Internet connection. And it is a good idea to have one of those programs that let you see your emails at the mail server without fetching them.