E-mail virus going around: W32.Beagle.A@mm

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-01-20 08:23pm

Subject line of Hi! and a 22 kB attachment. Do not open. I've gotten two today, and I haven't even finished with checking all my e-mail accounts yet.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-01-20 08:31pm

Symantec weighs in on W32.Beagle.A@mm

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-01-20 08:53pm

Ah. Thank you. Its running rampant in my university's webmail system. There have even been a few from the President's e-mail account.

Edit: Yeah, my university mail account had 26, all from the campus news service.

Whoever set that up is an idiot. Newswires never send out mail with that subject line.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2004-01-21 12:45am

I have not seen any at work or at home. Which is good. Last time I temped at the company Im at we got hit by a virus. Cant remember which one anymore, but it was mainly harmless.

This one should be easily stoppable by a mail servers cutting out .exe attachments.