London, UK - 1 March 2004, 17:30 GMT - mi2g Intelligence Unit preliminary data shows that NetSky.d has already caused $58.5 million in estimated damages worldwide as rivalry between the NetSky and Bagle malware writer(s) emerges. NetSky.d was released earlier today and whilst it has its own malicious agenda, it also modifies registry keys to delete the "au.exe" file used by two variants of the Bagle malware.

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