Bagle Virus (Worm) or Beagle Worm
The Bagle Virus (worm) or Beagle worm arrives in an e-mail with the subject "hi" and the word "test" in the message body. If the accompanying attachment is executed, the worm is unleashed and tries to send itself to all e-mails listed in the user's address book. It does this using two files that it drops into the windows operating system: shimgapi.dll and taskmon.exe.
Sometimes the The Bagle Virus (worm) or Beagle worm attachment is designed to look like a Microsoft calculator, said David Perry, spokesman for antivirus software firm Trend Micro Inc.
Begle virus only affects machines running Microsoft Windows operating systems.
Carey Nachenberg, chief architect of Symantec Research Labs in Cupertino, Calif., said home users, not corporations, were most at risk because companies had protected themselves quickly.
The Bagle worm (virus) uses a file called shimgapi.dll to construct outgoing email messages. Presence of the shimgapi.dll on your computer is an indication of infection.
If you find one of these files in your Windows system or you suspect that you may have a computer virus, we reccomend that you get an Online Virus Scan now.
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