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Sylad
Citizen
Username: Sylad
Post Number: 484
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Friday, March 19, 2004 - 10:03 am: | 
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I have gotten two emails from messageboard@southorangevillage.com, one yesterday and one today. No written message, just attachments, a .ZIP, .BMP, & a .PIF
I sent a note to the admin and have not heard a response. Has anyone else gotten these? I have not opened them, thought they might be a virus. |
LibraryLady(ncjanow)
Citizen
Username: Librarylady
Post Number: 1294
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 19, 2004 - 10:10 am: |
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After listing my email as a contact in the southorangevillage calendar, I also began receiving spam emails ostensibly from administrator @(my isp).com with similar attahments which I have deleted.
What's going on??
Nancy Chiller Janow
On a coffee break..or something like it.
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Tom Reingold
Citizen
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 2488
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, March 19, 2004 - 10:16 am: |
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Those sound like viruses. They lie about where they are coming from.
Tom Reingold the prissy-pants
There is nothing
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Nohero
Citizen
Username: Nohero
Post Number: 3070
Registered: 10-1999
| | Posted on Friday, March 19, 2004 - 10:44 am: |
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This is a notice we received from our IT people earlier this month:We are getting reports in the New York Office and from some of our branch offices of attempts by the latest variant of the Beagle/Bagle Internet virus attempting to infect our computer systems. This virus comes as an email with the following characteristics:
In the From Field: The senders name is spoofed to appear as though it is coming from one of the following addresses at [the firm's domain]:
Management
Administration
Staff
Noreply
Support
The email will have an Attachment: with a randomly named .exe file, inside a .zip file, or a .pif file. The zip file will be password-protected.
DO NOT OPEN SUCH AN EMAIL. |
jamie
Moderator
Username: Jamie
Post Number: 463
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 19, 2004 - 11:13 am: |
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Sylad,
I personally used to get a lot viruses from classifieds@maplewoodonline.com - but it had nothing to do with our server. Viruses simply pick randon email addresses, create email addresses with known domains and many other ways. Thanks for the heads up on this. Sounds like the Beagle/Bagle virus.
Nancy,
I don't know how the spams started after you posted on the calendar, I think it was just coincedence.
Also, in general, I've never known a pif file to be good! Never open one! |
Sylad
Citizen
Username: Sylad
Post Number: 488
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Friday, March 19, 2004 - 11:17 am: |
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I have heard that a virus named after a breakfast food are very dangerous, not as dangerous as a virus named after a snack or a beverage, but not something to taken lightly.
I think I will cover my NIC with some cream cheese as a protective measure. |
greenetree
Supporter
Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 2106
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 19, 2004 - 11:21 am: |
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What's really weird is that I have been getting all sorts of virus' sent to my work e-mail address. Our IT security system strips them out. I work for a pharma company & the e-mails are always "from" a legitimate-sounding name from my or other pharma companies. I wondered how I got into some of these lists, but I didn't know about the random creation thing. |
LibraryLady(ncjanow)
Citizen
Username: Librarylady
Post Number: 1295
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 19, 2004 - 11:34 am: |
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Jamie, The spam I have been receiving matches exactly to the warning from Nohero's IT deptartment.It probably has nothing to do with the calendar posting and must be a coincidence. Sorry to have cast any aspersions on anything to do with this WWS (wonderful web site!)
Nancy Chiller Janow
On a coffee break..or something like it.
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bets
Citizen
Username: Bets
Post Number: 552
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 19, 2004 - 2:02 pm: |
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And there appears to be a new, "evolved" P2P virus that has the Office of Homeland Security worried.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A444-2004Mar17.html |
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