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Jun 03, 2004

Who's the Girl in the Beagle.24 Virus Messages

Beagle.24 (aka WORM_BAGLE.X) is still running rampant on a few systems, and has spammed our directors account with some very heavily socially engineered emails designed to lure lonely computer geeks into clicking.

The address is also forged to look like it's coming from inside our machine, and with no SPF (or Microsoft CallerID) patch from M$, we're stuck getting these. We're going to have to check out the open source spf exchange plugin soon if this gets any worse.

Check out how creepy these emails are. I know quite a few people who might click on something like this if they thought for a minute it was real.

My big question: who are these poor girls that have ended up all over the internet, in a virus email no less! How bad would that suck to have someone you know get this thing if it was you?

From: secretGurl@cg.org [mailto:secretGurl@cg.org]
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 11:38 PM
To: Name Protected
Subject: I like you

Hey NProtected,

Cometime I write a poem, play the gitar. I love a traveling, I like a romantice and I want to meet, comeday, my big love!

Attached file will tell you everything.

Yours, SecretGurl


From: christina@cg.org [mailto:christina@cg.org] Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 11:30 PM To: Name Protected Subject: Notify from a known person ;-)

Hi,

It's me

I very much love new acquaintances, I love music, meetings with friends. I go on night clubs, except for parties I sometimes visit theatres and I love cinema. In general I only shall be glad to new acquaintance and class dialogue...

For more information see the attached file.

Yours, Christina

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