“Antivirus software companies began warning e-mail users this week that the persistent Bagle virus has re-emerged in a new version, Bagle.AF or Beagle.AB,” Laura Rohde reports for IDG News Service. “Trend Micro, based in Tokyo, rated the risk from the Bagel variant as “medium,” though it says the damage and distribution potentials of the virus are high… McAfee, in Santa Clara, California, raised its risk assessment to “medium-on-watch” and warned it had the potential of being upgraded to a high-risk threat.”
The Bagle virus and its variants affect computers running Microsoft Windows. Macintosh computers are unaffected.
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