What do the "Beagle Messages" look like?  I don't think I have gotten any
yet?
Gary

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Bixby" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 11:44 AM
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] FW: [HP3000-L] Hi (part 2)


I've seen approximately 800 Beagle messages over the past 36 hours.
Fortunately 90% of them originate from the same sender address, so it's a
simple matter to tell sendmail to reject most of them (so far).

- Mark B. (starting to have SoBig flashbacks)

Jeff Kell wrote:
> Larry Barnes wrote:
>
>> Jeff, do you know what this email is about?  I didn't send it.  Your
>> email address appears in the header so I curious.  I think it's an
>> attempt to harvest email addresses but I'm not sure.
>
>
> Beagle harvests e-mail addresses from your hard drive.  The addresses
> are not being harvested from the list (I don't think) as much as you
> think; it is likely another 3000-L user that happened to have you in
> their address book (or mail folders, or elsewhere).
>
> Beagle came out over the weekend and has a surprisingly high rate of
> infection (given that it is so obviously a trojan when you get it with a
> random attachment).

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