Notices
NSC-040303: W32.Beagle.J@mm Virus Information
Last night a new version of the Beagle worms started spreading on campus. This version is particularly bad because the virus message looks like it is from various ITS and other Management sources.
The messages have the following format:
One of the following lines:
- Dear user of <domain>,
- Dear user of <domain> gateway e-mail server,
- Dear user of e-mail server "<domain>",
- Hello user of <domain> e-mail server,
- Dear user of "<domain>" mailing system,
- Dear user, the management of <domain> mailing system wants to let you know that,
Followed by one of the following paragraphs:
- Your e-mail account has been temporary disabled because of unauthorized access.
- Our main mailing server will be temporary unavaible for next two days,
- to continue receiving mail in these days you have to configure our free * auto-forwarding service.
- Your e-mail account will be disabled because of improper using in next * three days, if you are still wishing to use it, please, resign your * account information.
- We warn you about some attacks on your e-mail account. Your computer may * contain viruses, in order to keep your computer and e-mail account safe, * please, follow the instructions.
- Our antivirus software has detected a large ammount of viruses outgoing * from your email account, you may use our free anti-virus tool to clean up * your computer software.
- Some of our clients complained about the spam (negative e-mail content) * outgoing from your e-mail account. Probably, you have been infected by * a proxy-relay trojan server. In order to keep your computer safe, * follow the instructions.
Followed by one of the following lines:
- For more information see the attached file.
- Further details can be obtained from attached file.
- Advanced details can be found in attached file.
- For details see the attach.
- For details see the attached file.
- For further details see the attach.
- Please, read the attach for further details.
- Pay attention on attached file.
Followed by:
- The <domain> team <http://www>http://www.<domain>
Followed by one of the following lines:
- The Management,
- Sincerely,
- Best wishes,
- Have a good day,
- Cheers,
- Kind regards,
Please tell all of your users that this is a virus and not to open the attachment. The attachment will infect their computers with the Beagle.J virus. ITS is working to block this and all other variants of the Beagle virus. Again please also remind your users not to open attachments that they are not expecting, even if they know the sender.
Additional Details can be found here: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.beagle.j@mm.html
Removal Instructions can be found here: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.beagle.j@mm.html#removalinstructions