Virus Alert:Beagle.j

This one's like Beagle.I,with messages sent in the following(or similar) format

Quote:

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Dear user of e-mail server "yourdomain.com",

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.

For more information see the attached file.

For security purposes the attached file is password protected. Password is "xxxxxx".

The Management,
The Yourdomain.com team http://www.yourdomain.com

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http://securityresponse.symantec.com...agle.j@mm.html

This new variant has the same functionalities as the .c variant. It uses different file names to write to the local machine. The file size is different.

This is a mass-mailing worm with the following characteristics:

contains its own SMTP engine to construct outgoing messages
harvests email addresses from the victim machine
the From: address of messages is spoofed
contains a remote access component (notification is sent to hacker)

there is also a w32/beagle.c and a beagle.e