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kronas
27-03-2004, 00:18
a new variant of the beagle worm 'W32.Beagle.U@mm' has been unleased symantec has stated:

Due to an increase in the rate of submissions, Symantec Security Response has upgraded W32.Beagle.U@mm to a Category 3 from a Category 2 threat as of March 25, 2004.

W32.Beagle.U@mm is a variant of W32.Beagle.T@mm. The worm sends itself as an email with a blank subject and body and a randomly named attachment. It also opens a backdoor on TCP port 4751.The attachment name is a random string of letters with an .exe extension.


more information:

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.beagle.u@mm.html

Halcyon
27-03-2004, 10:39
Not that one again !!!
Well annoying.

ntl customer
27-03-2004, 14:00
They're already up to to U with that one? :shocked:

They'll soon be running out of letters to name the variations after - only 4 more variations to go!

Maggy
27-03-2004, 14:03
They're already up to to U with that one? :shocked:

They'll soon be running out of letters to name the variations after - only 4 more variations to go!

Then it will have to be double letters! :D

paulyoung666
27-03-2004, 14:20
rushes off to check av is upto date :disturbd: :disturbd:

Maggy
27-03-2004, 14:24
rushes off to check av is upto date :disturbd: :disturbd:

Mine updated 4 times yesterday so I should have guessed summat was up.

kronas
27-03-2004, 18:00
its the 21st variation apparently, and its set to stop spreading in january 2005.....