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Virus Alert
It appears that someone has singled out everyone listed on this
newsgroup to be the recipient of a virus /worm. The details are as follows: A virus was found in an email from: Subject: Taste this patch from the M$ Corporation Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 15:11:06 -0700 Message-ID: 00a401c3401d$ab3851d0$6502a8c0@qun MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="update862.zip" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="update862.zip" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.110 ALERT: [Worm/Gibe.B.3 virus] /var/spool/vscan/amavis/amavis-milter-XXuwGjVC/parts/part-00001 Contains signature of the worm Worm/Gibe.B.3 If you do not have virus scanning software and are running a windows os, you can get FREE virus scanning software he http://www.amavis.org/ |
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"Tracy" wrote in message news:FTpMa.1179$3h3.2309@rwcrnsc53... "dani" wrote in message thlink.net... It appears that someone has singled out everyone listed on this newsgroup to be the recipient of a virus /worm. The details are as follows: A virus was found in an email from: Dani, Was this sent via email or posted? Either way, I didn't see it - but good catch... I've gotten about 20 of these supposed MS Security Patches by email over the last 2-3 months. Sometimes they show as being from MS Tech Support and sometimes they appear to come from people by name who are warning "friends" about new viruses. What is confusing is some of the earlier versions of the emails, when opened, are hacked versions of the MS Tech support site, and when used, actually give you email access to the real MS tech support people. The emails have .exe file attachments that contain a virus. On the earlier versions the download option on the hacked MS tech support site page led to the virus infected file. I was a little naive the first time, and luckily my virus detection software notified me of the presence of the virus. I used the MS tech support link on the hacked page to contact MS tech support and they responded the email was a hoax and MS does not send out email patches for their software. Any updates or releases have to be downloaded from their site. |
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Bob Whiteside wrote:
"Tracy" wrote in message news:FTpMa.1179$3h3.2309@rwcrnsc53... "dani" wrote in message arthlink.net... It appears that someone has singled out everyone listed on this newsgroup to be the recipient of a virus /worm. The details are as follows: A virus was found in an email from: Dani, Was this sent via email or posted? Either way, I didn't see it - but good catch... I've gotten about 20 of these supposed MS Security Patches by email over the last 2-3 months. Sometimes they show as being from MS Tech Support and sometimes they appear to come from people by name who are warning "friends" about new viruses. What is confusing is some of the earlier versions of the emails, when opened, are hacked versions of the MS Tech support site, and when used, actually give you email access to the real MS tech support people. The emails have .exe file attachments that contain a virus. On the earlier versions the download option on the hacked MS tech support site page led to the virus infected file. I was a little naive the first time, and luckily my virus detection software notified me of the presence of the virus. I used the MS tech support link on the hacked page to contact MS tech support and they responded the email was a hoax and MS does not send out email patches for their software. Any updates or releases have to be downloaded from their site. Yes. You can read up on this virus/worm he http://www.pcmag.com/category/0,,s=25410,00.asp This is basically a worm that e-mails itself and makes it look like an MS tech update. I run Linux so no viruses here, but I use Amavis virusscan on my e-mail anyway just to keep my mail clean when I forward. ~Dani |
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dani wrote:
: I was sent via e-mail. There was quite a large list of people who were : cc and I happened to notice that all the names were of those I have seen : in this newsgroup. Ha. Someone doesn't like us. We must be making progress. Quite common. I'm also using a Linux shell at my ISP running a "tin" news reader. No problem here. The ISP uses Postini virus/spam preprocessing (a buck a month to do so) and at my M$Word Pee Cee, I have McAfee on it for another layer of protection. I am amazed at the "spammed" virus messages I'm receiving. Someone is actually harvesting thousands of email addresses and sending viruses to them. For what reason, I will never know. b. |
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"dani" wrote in message
rthlink.net... Tracy wrote: "dani" wrote in message thlink.net... It appears that someone has singled out everyone listed on this newsgroup to be the recipient of a virus /worm. The details are as follows: A virus was found in an email from: Dani, Was this sent via email or posted? Either way, I didn't see it - but good catch... Tracy I was sent via e-mail. There was quite a large list of people who were cc and I happened to notice that all the names were of those I have seen in this newsgroup. Ha. Someone doesn't like us. We must be making progress. Seriously - why hasn't anyone reported this spammer to their ISP, your own ISP, or better? All you need to do is find out who their ISP is... if you can't, send the full headers to your own ISP. They'll deal with it. Your own ISP could possibly setup a filter to not allow the spammer to send emails to their customers, and your ISP may make it known to other ISPs. Tracy ~~~~~~~ http://www.hornschuch.net/tracy/ "You can't solve problems with the same type of thinking that created them." Albert Einstein *** spamguard in place! to email me: tracy at hornschuch dot net *** |
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Tracy wrote:
"dani" wrote in message rthlink.net... Tracy wrote: "dani" wrote in message . earthlink.net... It appears that someone has singled out everyone listed on this newsgroup to be the recipient of a virus /worm. The details are as follows: A virus was found in an email from: Dani, Was this sent via email or posted? Either way, I didn't see it - but good catch... Tracy I was sent via e-mail. There was quite a large list of people who were cc and I happened to notice that all the names were of those I have seen in this newsgroup. Ha. Someone doesn't like us. We must be making progress. Seriously - why hasn't anyone reported this spammer to their ISP, your own ISP, or better? All you need to do is find out who their ISP is... if you can't, send the full headers to your own ISP. They'll deal with it. Your own ISP could possibly setup a filter to not allow the spammer to send emails to their customers, and your ISP may make it known to other ISPs. Tracy ~~~~~~~ http://www.hornschuch.net/tracy/ "You can't solve problems with the same type of thinking that created them." Albert Einstein *** spamguard in place! to email me: tracy at hornschuch dot net *** Tracy - I thought about that. But, it may not even be a spammer as this is a worm. It may have harvested the e-mails all by itself from this persons newsreader. Although I don't recognize the e-mail address myself. Remember, last year when CANOW released their report blasting Father's Right's Groups? I posted quite a few rebuttals here and to other groups as well. In response I got hit by a massive denial of service attack. There was no way to get online for several hours and I finally had to call my isp and have them shut down that node of the system to block whoever was doing it. I assume my isp also took other action as well. I didn't follow up though. But, it just shows the viotility (?) of this issue. ~ Dani |
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