From another email list
Warning
for anyone using LimeWire or Morpheus
For many years now I've used a free
download service called LimeWire. You can
usually find songs, programs and
other information others care to share.
Lately, there have been a number
of programs that turn up when you search for
what you want that are viruses
that plant invisable report programs on your
computer. This virus doesn't do
any damage but rather monitors keystrokes and
URL visits and reports these
back to another computer. This system has
thought of everything you could
possibly search for and has renamed this same
file under hundreds of
thousands of different names. It's the exact same file
and comes from the
exact same IP: 38.144.198.150. If any of your more
advanced
users care to back trace the IP, they will find it's the central
computer
for the Federal Bureau of Investigation located in the Justice
Department
building on Capitol Hill Blvd.
I would warn anyone who uses LimeWire or
Morpheus to beware of what you're
downloading. If you ask for, say, Sunny
Day.mp3 and you see a file listed
that says something like
this:
Sunny Day (Awesome!) mp3 (Size) 302 kb
Or
Sunny Day (The Real
Thing!) mp3 (Size) 302 kb
Be careful!!! First of all, any song will be at
least 1,500 kb unless it's
only a fragment. Second of all, why would someone
put "AWESOME!!" or "The
Real Thing!" unless they were trying to scam you in
the first place?
Every single one of those files in questions traces back
to IP
38.144.198.150.
I downloaded the file but
didn't run it and sent it to a computer whiz friend
who analyzed it by line
code. It's designed to record keystrokes (whatever
you type on your keyboard
is kept in a file you don't know about on your hard
drive and downloaded on
command), record which websites you visit, copy your
email and place a pass
through any firewall so that the recorded information
can be transmitted
back to the main FBI computer.
Beware, Big Brother is in
place.
Yours,
Stephanie
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