Meanwhile, on the other side of the galaxy...

While everybody's busy watching the Nyxem.e sittuation around the world, the virus writers are hardly taking any break.

For the past two days we've been tracking an increase in the number of Email-Worm.Win32.Bagle.fj samples up to the point that it is now topping our malware statistics.

It is worth noting that out of the couple hundred different malware which have been spreading quite well using e-mail during 2005, 25% have been Bagle variants. More 2005 statistics in an upcoming report from KL.