This is a complex and bad set of stuff. I'll get the notice from work and stick it in here:
To All Library Staffs:
W32.Beagle.J@mm is a mass-mailing worm that uses its own SMTP engine to spread through email. It is designed to send messages to email addresses that it gathers from an affected machine. As always, any time you receive an unexpected email from an unknown sender, you should be suspicious. If you can't verify the sender, don't open the message and DELETE the email. BOTTOM-LINE is, if you receive emails containing any of the information below, regardless of whom you may think sent them, please DELETE them.
Virus Characteristics:
From: The From field is spoofed: (Sender address is randomly taken from one of these addresses)
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.
Message Body: (any of the following)
Dear user of , Dear user of gateway e-mail server, Dear user of e-mail server "", Hello user of e-mail server, Dear user of "" mailing system, Dear user, the management of mailing system wants to let you know that,
Followed by one of the following paragraphs:
---Your e-mail account has been temporary disabled because of unauthorized access. Our main mailing server will be temporary unavaible for next two days, to continue receiving mail in these days you have to configure our free auto-forwarding service.
---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.
---We warn you about some attacks on your e-mail account. Your computer may contain viruses, in order to keep your computer and e-mail account safe, please, follow the instructions.
---Our antivirus software has detected a large ammount of viruses outgoing from your email account, you may use our free anti-virus tool to clean up your computer software.
---Some of our clients complained about the spam (negative e-mail content)outgoing from your e-mail account. Probably, you have been infected by a proxy-relay trojan server. In order to keep your computer safe, follow the instructions.
Followed by one of the following lines:
For more information see the attached file. Further details can be obtained from attached file. Advanced details can be found in attached file. For details see the attach. For details see the attached file. For further details see the attach. Please, read the attach for further details. Pay attention on attached file.
Followed by one of the following lines:
For security reasons attached file is password protected. The password is "". For security purposes the attached file is password protected. Password is "". Attached file protected with the password for security reasons. Password is . In order to read the attach you have to use the following password: .
Followed by one of the following lines: The Management, Sincerely, Best wishes, Have a good day, Cheers, Kind regards,
Attachment: The attachment is one of the following: .Zip or .Pif
Attach Information Readme Document Info TextDocument TextFile MoreInfo Message
The latest Norton (Symantec) definition files should be March 2 on your computer. You might want to check. You also might want to read this interesting article about some of the squabbling content inside these nasty worms: