RE: clever virus attack (OT)
On 4/3/04, ZOOMSHOT ZIGGY disgorged: Would you like a large GT to cool you down? Ziggy On 3/3/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: Password protetected Zip files scramble the contents enough to keep virus protection software from itdetifing the contents you shouldn't worry. The virus can't do anything unless you use the password and open it. Hey, I did that. Oh my god. Help me, help me, I'm m-m-m-m-e-l-t-i-n-g... Just got in, opened a bottle of London Pride. Toasting the PDML... Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=| http://www.macads.co.uk/snaps _ Free UK Mac Ads http://www.macads.co.uk
Re: clever virus attack (OT)
Something new (for me) that I got yesterday was an eBay spoof asking you to click on a link and update your personal info on eBay. What was new was that the text was mixed into a long string of garbage with some sort of HTML formatting that only showed the intended message. SO this: duringnourgreguiarwupdatekandbverificationmofztheoaccounts,ywelcouidn'tt verifynyourpcurrentvinformation.weitheriyourginformationmhashchangedcorp itsiscincomplete. aswauresult,eyourmaccessttofbidzorabuyloneebayahaslbeenirestricted.ctoxs tartbusingwebaybaccountgfully,xpieasehupdatesandjverifyoyoureinformation ibyzciicki! Showed up as During our regular update and verification of the account, we couldn't verify etc... Seemed really odd (I only noticed the string of garbage when I highlighted the message to send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) I wonder why they bothered to encode the message that way - I doubt it anti-virus or even spam software somehow would block the unscrambled message... - MCC - Mark Cassino Photography Kalamazoo, MI http://www.markcassino.com -
Re: clever virus attack (OT)
today I got this message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear user of Mindspring.com, Your e-mail account has been temporary disabled because of unauthorized access. Advanced details can be found in attached file. Attached file is protected with the password for security reasons. Password is 16120. Cheers, The Mindspring.com team http://www.mindspring.com And it had a nice little .zip attached called readme.zip I didn't read it... Christian - Original Message - From: Mark Cassino [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 4:21 PM Subject: Re: clever virus attack (OT) Something new (for me) that I got yesterday was an eBay spoof asking you to click on a link and update your personal info on eBay. What was new was that the text was mixed into a long string of garbage with some sort of HTML formatting that only showed the intended message. SO this: duringnourgreguiarwupdatekandbverificationmofztheoaccounts,ywelcouidn'tt verifynyourpcurrentvinformation.weitheriyourginformationmhashchangedcorp itsiscincomplete. aswauresult,eyourmaccessttofbidzorabuyloneebayahaslbeenirestricted.ctoxs tartbusingwebaybaccountgfully,xpieasehupdatesandjverifyoyoureinformation ibyzciicki! Showed up as During our regular update and verification of the account, we couldn't verify etc... Seemed really odd (I only noticed the string of garbage when I highlighted the message to send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) I wonder why they bothered to encode the message that way - I doubt it anti-virus or even spam software somehow would block the unscrambled message... - MCC - Mark Cassino Photography Kalamazoo, MI http://www.markcassino.com -
Re: clever virus attack (OT)
I got the same thing. It comes from email harvesters that found our email address on the PUG site. I traced it to some computer in Poland. rg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: today I got this message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear user of Mindspring.com, Your e-mail account has been temporary disabled because of unauthorized access. Advanced details can be found in attached file. Attached file is protected with the password for security reasons. Password is 16120. Cheers, The Mindspring.com team http://www.mindspring.com And it had a nice little .zip attached called readme.zip I didn't read it... Christian - Original Message - From: Mark Cassino [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 4:21 PM Subject: Re: clever virus attack (OT) Something new (for me) that I got yesterday was an eBay spoof asking you to click on a link and update your personal info on eBay. What was new was that the text was mixed into a long string of garbage with some sort of HTML formatting that only showed the intended message. SO this: duringnourgreguiarwupdatekandbverificationmofztheoaccounts,ywelcouidn'tt verifynyourpcurrentvinformation.weitheriyourginformationmhashchangedcorp itsiscincomplete. aswauresult,eyourmaccessttofbidzorabuyloneebayahaslbeenirestricted.ctoxs tartbusingwebaybaccountgfully,xpieasehupdatesandjverifyoyoureinformation ibyzciicki! Showed up as During our regular update and verification of the account, we couldn't verify etc... Seemed really odd (I only noticed the string of garbage when I highlighted the message to send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) I wonder why they bothered to encode the message that way - I doubt it anti-virus or even spam software somehow would block the unscrambled message... - MCC - Mark Cassino Photography Kalamazoo, MI http://www.markcassino.com -
Re: clever virus attack (OT)
Hi, I got the same thing. It comes from email harvesters that found our email address on the PUG site. I've just received 51 of them in one go, addressed to non-existent email addresses. Anything that ends '@ my domain name' is routed by my isp to a postmaster account. The spammers try out different things, like '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' etc. -- Cheers, Bob
