Beagle.J virus

Beagle.J Virus

(also known as Bagle.J)

Basics
E-mail messages that warn of various bad things that may occur to your account are false. These messages are generated by this virus in an attempt to reproduce itself. Recommended actions:

Do not open the attachment
Delete the message
Open Norton AntiVirus and run LiveUpdate
Scan your computer with Norton AntiVirus

Detailed Information
Beginning March 2, 2004, the Beagle.J virus hit the University of Oregon. The message appears to come from one of the following addresses:

support@uoregon.edu
staff@uoregon.edu
management@uoregon.edu
administration@uoregon.edu
noreply@uoregon.edu

It has the subject line:

E-mail account disabling warning.
E-mail account security warning.
Email account utilization warning.
Important notify about your e-mail account.
Notify about using the e-mail account.
Notify about your e-mail account utilization.
Warning about your e-mail account.

One version of the message reads:

Hello user of Uoregon.edu e-mail server,

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.

For more information see the attached file.

Attached file protected with the password for security reasons.
Password is 68236.

The Management,
The Uoregon.edu team
http://www.uoregon.edu

For more information, see Symantec's technical description.

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