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Dubbed Beagle by some, Bagel by others, the worm first appeared in the Pacific/Asia theater, hitting Australia hard and spreading to Europe before making the rounds through businesses and consumers
January 21, 2004

Beagle/Bagel is hard-coded to stop propagating on Jan. 28, but because it reads the infected system's internal clock -- rather than pinging an Internet server -- machines with incorrectly-set clocks may still spread the worm after that date.

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