Diane, thanks for posting this here. I had been receiving this the past few weeks, and for better judgment, knew not to open it; it is sickening how someone could want to deliberately destroy someone's computer. Awful!
Sandy ----- Original Message ----- From: Diane Kelker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: RECIPES AND MORE <RecipesAndMore@googlegroups.com>; COOKING-FRIENDS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; VIP FORUM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2007 6:39 PM Subject: [RecipesAndMore] VirusUpdates: Hydra > > > > ---- Original Message ------ > From: Pam Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: VirusUpdates: Hydra > Date sent: Sun, 01 Jul 2007 16:25:53 -0700 > > This came from Dave Ausdenmoore's Virus Updates list. Dave is a > detective > with the cyber crimes department of the Hamilton County, Ohio, > Sheriff's > Department, and is a monthly guest on Computer Talk on WMKV Radio > in > Reading, Ohio <wmkvfm.org> when he's not out chasing pedophiles > on the Net. > > > Dave McElroy and I have both gotten some of these, so beware. > The one to > Dave even came with a phrase indicating that his ""partner" had > sent him a > greeting card. He thought he knew better, but asked me just in > case. > > Beware! A previous message sent to this list should be taken > seriously. > > Snip > > The ISC (the self proclaimed Internet Storm Center) has released > the > following information: > > http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticl > eBasic&arti > cleId=9025898&source=NLT_VVR&nlid=37 > <http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArtic > leBasic&art > icleId=9025898&source=NLT_VVR&nlid=37 > > The link is safe - I promise! Sorry about the wrap - you may need > to cut and > paste the link to get to the story. > > In short - This beastie is a spam e-mail that invites you to read > a greeting > card from a 'family member'. You go to the web site and one of > two bad > things happen - if you have scripting enabled - your computer is > attacked by > hostile script. If you have scripting disabled - then you are > provided a > link that you can click on and infect your computer. > > There are a great many details in the news story about what the > actual > infections do (multi infector) and all that good stuff. Suffice > to say that > a properly secured system with scripting disabled will be > protected. That is > - of course - if you violate one of our cardinal rules - to THINK > before you > CLICK!! > > So - give the story a read and update your AV and OS - OK? > > All for now - practice safe computing! > > aus > Dave Ausdenmoore 513.946.6688 (office) > 1000 Sycamore St. Rm 110 513.368.9211 (cellular) Cincinnati, Oh > 45202 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:daussie%40fuse.net> (personal) > 513.946.6690 (fax) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:aussie%40infobin.org> (business) > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Access the Recipes And More list archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/recipesandmore%40googlegroups.com/ Visit the group home page at: http://groups.google.com/group/RecipesAndMore -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
