W32.Beagle.U@mm

[kronas]

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/ven...agle.u@mm.html

[Halcyon]

Not that one again !!!
Well annoying.

[ntl customer]

They're already up to to U with that one?

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

[Maggy J]

Originally Posted by ntl customer

They're already up to to U with that one?

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!

[paulyoung666]

rushes off to check av is upto date

[Maggy J]

Originally Posted by paulyoung666

rushes off to check av is upto date

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

[kronas]

its the 21st variation apparently, and its set to stop spreading in january 2005.....