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If anyone gets a email with the subject with Warning about your e-mail account. from staff@yahoo.com with a zip file attachment do not download it it contains the virus “W32.Beagle.J@mm” in the attachment.
it will have this in the email
Dear user of YAHOO.COM,
Your e-mail account has been temporary disabled because of
unauthorized access.Pay attention on attached file.
For security reasons attached file is password protected. The
password is “14132”.Kind regards,
The YAHOO.COM team http://www.yAHOO.COMSometimes they try to pass it off on yahoo messenger in a zip and try and get you to download it, they also try it on Yahoo chats also.
Got this back from Yahoo, it is helpfull.
Hello,
Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Mail.
Recently, there have been reports of theW32.Beagle.J@mm/W32/Bagle.j@mm
worm virus spreading quickly across email networks. Typical of worms,
the W32.Beagle.J@mm worm propagates itself by sending a mass email with
an infected attachment to email addresses found in an infected
computer’s files (e.g., address books, text files, etc.).Infected attachments may come in the form of the following files: .zip
or .pif. The .zip file contains a password-protected .exe file with
the
5-digit password mentioned in the email. In addition, the email that is
sent out by the worm will contain a forged email address in the “From:”
field of the email header beginning with one of the following:
management@, administration@, staff@, noreply@, or support@.
Therefore,
email users may receive an infected message and it may appear to have
come from a familiar domain, when in fact, it came from a totally
different source. (Note: The forging of the email header may also
result
in users receiving “Failure Delivery” messages for messages they never
sent out. If you receive such a message, we encourage you to just
delete
it.)For more information on this particular worm, you may visit:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/pf/w32.beagle.j@mm.html
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