[Rose in RoseBear]

Think it's an attack of some sort?

We were having traffic problems at work, so I was attributing it to that...but it's been even slower from here!

Gentlebeings:

We are in the midst of a worm attack.

It's Beagle, or Bagle <by the Whorls of Remaal!> Nasty worm that grabs all the address books on your drive and starts mailing itself to them. Telltale evidence of infection: suddenly Windows Calculator pops up without your executing it.

From Symantec:

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W32.Beagle.A@mm is a mass-mailing worm that accesses remote Web sites and sends email to any addresses it finds using its own SMTP engine. The email has the following characteristics:

Subject: Hi
Filename: .exe
Filesize: 15,872 bytes

The worm will only work until January 28, 2004. ...

Some customers have reported that Trojan.Mitglieder.C has been discovered on computers infected with W32.Beagle.A@mm.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

nice post number (smooch)

[Ramius]

At my company we as yet have zero infections from said worm. But then again we have about four levels of antivirus before something gets to a desktop. We've been pretty bulletproof since the first round of Anna K a couple of years ago.

But then again... I confiscate any .exe file on any mail. Makes the problem somewhat easier to avoid.

[My back yard]

Last night our Norton caught 3 viruses. 2 Trojans and one that my son said was a fake. ??