Beagle Virus Running

[Brett_Tabke]

[story.news.yahoo.com...]

The "Bagle" or "Beagle" worm arrives as an attachment to an e-mail with the subject line "Hi" and "test : )" in the body text. The worm is activated when a user clicks on the attached file.

Once the attachment is opened, the worm tries to send copies of itself to all of the e-mail addresses that it finds on the victim's computer, faking the return address with one randomly generated from those sifted from the infected PC. It also installs a program that lets attackers connect to infected machines, install malicious software or steal files.

[trillianjedi]

When I saw that title I thought it was going to be an explanation for the Beagle's recent failure on Mars!

TJ

[Reflect]

I do virus control as one of my day job duties. We are getting a nice amount of these. The thing that really worries me though is from I have gleamed this is a test run with an expiration date. Makes me wonder what will morph from the results. Also it seams that some workstations are getting Trojan.Mitglieder.C from Beagle.

://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[e-mail]

Brian

[txbakers]

I've caught quite a few already.

Bottom line, as always, don't open attachments if you don't know WHO they are from and WHY they are sending them to you.