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W32.Beagle uses unsophisticated methods, but could still pose a threat.
Paul Roberts, IDG News Service
Tuesday, January 20, 2004
Beagle 2, the European Space Agency's Mars explorer, did not have much success with its mission of exploring the surface of the Red Planet. But a new e-mail worm with the same name is apparently having better luck exploring the Internet, according to warnings issued by leading antivirus software companies.
The new worm, known as W32.Beagle and W32.Bagle, appeared on Sunday and spreads by harvesting e-mail addresses from computer hard drives, then mailing copies of itself out to those addresses. It fakes the from address on e-mail messages it sends, antivirus companies say.
The worm arrives in an e-mail file attachment with a randomly generated name and EXE extension. E-mail messages containing the worm have the subject Hi and a message body that reads: Test =) followed by some randomly generated characters and then Test, yep, says F-Secure of Helsinki.
The worm affects computers running a number of versions of Microsoft's Windows operating system including Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, and Windows XP. It is programmed to stop spreading on January 28, 2004, F-Secure says.
Still Spreading............................
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