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The Beagle Has Landed: Computer Virus Harvests Your Email Addresses

Posted by TimSlavin at January 21, 2004

"A new computer virus capable of harvesting millions of e-mail addresses from infected PCs is spreading rapidly across the Internet, security experts said Monday.

The infection, known as "Bagle" or "Beagle," appears to be the handiwork of spammers keen to collect a batch of e-mail addresses they can then re-sell to other spam e-mail marketers or keep for their own use." The email has a subject line of "Hi" and a .exe attachment. From Wired News.

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