{"id":5497,"date":"2004-03-03T10:45:42","date_gmt":"2004-03-03T17:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/03\/03\/the-beagle-has-landed.html"},"modified":"2004-03-03T10:45:42","modified_gmt":"2004-03-03T17:45:42","slug":"the_beagle_has","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/03\/03\/the_beagle_has.html","title":{"rendered":"The Beagle has landed"},"content":{"rendered":"

And this week’s entry into Increasingly Nasty Worms and Virii goes to W32.Beagle.J@mm<\/a> (and similar names), which is busy spreading joy across the Internet.<\/p>\n

The worm arrives as an e-mail from “administrator” or “support” or some other official-sounding type from your own domain. It tells you in reasonable English about a problem with your e-mail account, and conveniently includes a Zip file for you to open, along with its password.<\/p>\n

Needless to say, once opened and executed, it does all sorts of nasty things.<\/p>\n

And, needless to say, you should:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Have a good anti-virus program and a current subscription to its updates protecting your system at all times.\n
  2. Not open e-mail attachments unless it’s someone you know and an attachment you’re expecting. If you get something that looks <\/i>official, go to your ISP or host’s (or the company that it claims to be from’s) web page and look for a mention of it there.<\/p>\n
  3. See #1.<\/ol>\n

    Etc., etc., etc.<\/p>\n

    All this should go without saying, but apparently cannot be.<\/p>\n

    (via Les <\/a>and others)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    And this week’s entry into Increasingly Nasty Worms and Virii goes to W32.Beagle.J@mm (and similar names), which is busy spreading joy across the Internet. 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