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Virus Alert - mybankey - 07-28-2009
HUGE VIRUS COMING ! PLEASE READ & FORWARD ! This was sent to me, not sure if it is real but thought I would let you all know.Tom <img src=\"style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\"
\" border=\"0\" alt=\"smile.gif\" />Hi All, I checked with Norton Anti-Virus, and they are gearing up for this virus! I checked Snopes, and it is for real. Get this E-mail message sent around to your contacts ASAP. PLEASE FORWARD THIS WARNING AMONG FRIENDS, FAMILY AND CONTACTS! You should be alert during the next few days. Do not open any message with an attachment entitled 'POSTCARD FROM HALLMARK,'regardless of who sent it to you. It is a virus which opens A POSTCARD IMAGE, which 'burns' the whole hard disc C of your computer. This virus will be received from someone who has your e-mail address in his/her contact list. This is the reason why you need to send this e-mail to all your contacts. It is better to receive this message 25 times than to receive the virus and open it. If you receive a mail called' POSTCARD,' even though sent to you by a friend, do not open it! Shut down your computer immediately. This is the worst virus announced by CNN. It has been classified by Microsoft as the most destructive virus ever. This virus was discovered by McAfee yesterday, and there is no repair yet for this kind of virus. This virus simply destroys the Zero Sector of the Hard Disc, where the vital information is kept. COPY THIS E-MAIL, AND SEND IT TO YOUR FRIENDS. REMEMBER: IF YOU SEND IT TO THEM, YOU WILL BENEFIT ALL OF US
Virus Alert - Mutilated - 07-28-2009
Meh, these things are sent around like crazy, they're always BS and never true. Just an e-mail sent out by the Anti-Virus companies to get your to get their product.
Virus Alert - mybankey - 07-28-2009
<!--quoteo(post=323418:date=Jul 28 2009, 02:08 PM:name=AXE MURDERER)<div class=\'quotetop\'>QUOTE (AXE MURDERER @ Jul 28 2009, 02:08 PM) <a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=323418\"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class=\'quotemain\'><!--quotecMeh, these things are sent around like crazy, they're always BS and never true. Just an e-mail sent out by the Anti-Virus companies to get your to get their product.<!--QuoteEnd</div><!--QuoteEEndGood point!
Virus Alert - BRASFIELD32 - 07-28-2009
thanks for the heads up man
Virus Alert - RDBAIT - 07-28-2009
Think you got a cheery greeting card from a friend via e-mail?Well, think again, and be careful before opening it. A new form of fake e-card notification e-mails are unleashing nasty viruses and virus-carrying Trojan horses on unsuspecting users.While e-card-triggered viruses and Trojan horses are not new, the latest versions are becoming more difficult for typical antivirus and antispam defenses to detect, according to alerts issued today by security software vendors Avinti Inc. and F-Secure Corp.The new complication, said Dave Green, chief technology officer at Lindon, Utah-based Avinti, is that the latest slew of fake e-card e-mail notifications are using plain text in their messages, which don't get scanned and scrutinized by antivirus and antispam defense applications. While the e-mails don't contain pasted links or attached files that a recipient can click on to get a computer infection, many e-mail clients automatically convert the included text into a clickable link when the e-mail clients recognize a Web address in the text."It appears they have done that to get around a lot of the parsing used by antivirus and antispam applications" to fight such attacks, Green said. "It's an interesting cat-and-mouse game between the bad guys and the good guys.""Apparently, they've found that they can be very successful in getting these through by not having it be formatted as an HTML message," Green said.All recipients have to do to trigger the virus is to click on the link created by the e-mail client once they have read the message, he said.Adding to the confusion and the potential seriousness of the problem, he said, is that the perpetrators sending these e-mails are using the names of some of the most popular electronic greeting card companies in their messages and Web links.Avinti said it has updated its Avinti Isolation Server product to protect against such attacks, while other vendors are still updating their own products.Avinti's alert said the links to the fake e-greeting cards lead to IP addresses in various locations, including the U.S. and Eastern Europe, and many are registered to U.S. Internet service providers. The damaging payload files are new variants of the Storm Worm virus that was first detected in January, the company said.In its alert today, Helsinki, Finland-based security vendor F-Secure said the fake e-card messages from one group of online criminals appear to have changed since last night, when they dropped the use of attached files and went to plain-text messages.An included link then tells the recipient to install a free "Microsoft Data Access" application to retrieve the e-card, but that file -- msdataaccess.exe -- is a damaging virus. F-Secure said it has identified the virus as Email-Worm.Win32.Zhelatin.gg.Danny Allan, director of research at security analysis vendor Watchfire Corp. in Waltham, Mass., said he has seen similar all-text e-greeting mailings before, but the numbers have increased lately.For antivirus and antispam vendors, the theory had been that if the message includes plain text without links and attachments, it could cause no harm, he said. That approach has to change, Allan said.User need to be cautious and not click on links they find in e-mails, Allan said. Instead, they should go directly to a Web site by typing its address into a Web browser and go there on their own, bypassing links that could be malicious.Vendors will have a tough time making the problem go away completely, he said, because they can't devise ways of evaluating every Web link or instance in an e-mail. However, they can improve detection of suspicious encoded characters and domain names in messages."If there was a silver bullet that could solve the problem, the antivirus companies would have done it," Allan said.Zully Ramzan, a senior principal researcher at Cupertino, Calif.-based security vendor Symantec Corp.'s security response team, said Symantec has seen plain-text attacks before and doesn't view them as a new problem."There's been a bit of a resurgence lately" with e-card notification messages, possibly because of last month's July 4 holiday or because criminal groups have been organizing mailing campaigns, he said.Andrew Jaquith, a security analyst at Boston-based Yankee Group Research Inc., said the latest e-greeting attacks are an example that criminals "are going to be coming up with more and more ingenious ways of tricking people or exploiting ways of tricking your e-mail client. This is just one of any number of ways that these guys are going to try to lure users to do something they shouldn't."THIS WAS TAKEN FROM PC WORLD'S WEBSITE!!!!This is a real virus, they have done this stuff o and off, but died down for a while, but some idiot gets bored and decides to screw with people!!!!! Frank
Virus Alert - mperaginejr - 07-28-2009
This happened at my company a few months back. The women that openned it had their computers all jacked up. Needless to say, I didn't open mine.
Virus Alert - Deadguy71 - 07-28-2009
I've been getting slammed with those at my work over the last like 10 days.I know to ignore them, but there a couple of folks around there that don't seem to know better.. (no matter HOW many times you tell 'em)
Virus Alert - capnvlad - 07-31-2009
buy a mac.. we don't have to worry about them <img src=\"style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\"
\" border=\"0\" alt=\"smile.gif\" />
Virus Alert - SideshowFreak - 07-31-2009
<!--quoteo(post=323834:date=Jul 31 2009, 11:43 AM:name=capnvlad)<div class=\'quotetop\'>QUOTE (capnvlad @ Jul 31 2009, 11:43 AM) <a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=323834\"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class=\'quotemain\'><!--quotecbuy a mac.. we don't have to worry about them <img src=\"style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\"
\" border=\"0\" alt=\"smile.gif\" /><!--QuoteEnd</div><!--QuoteEEndlol no thanks i value my dollar. <img src=\"style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/bunny.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\":bunny:\" border=\"0\" alt=\"bunny.gif\" /> <img src=\"style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/bunny.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\":bunny:\" border=\"0\" alt=\"bunny.gif\" /> You don't have them yet because there aren't enough Mac's out there! The script kiddies don't want to waste there time writing virus/Trojans for thousands of Mac's they want to write them for millions of pc's. <img src=\"style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\":tongue:\" border=\"0\" alt=\"tongue.gif\" />-Jared
Virus Alert - Homicidal#9 - 07-31-2009
<!--quoteo(post=323835:date=Jul 31 2009, 10:56 AM:name=SideshowFreak)<div class=\'quotetop\'>QUOTE (SideshowFreak @ Jul 31 2009, 10:56 AM) <a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=323835\"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class=\'quotemain\'><!--quoteclol no thanks i value my dollar. <img src=\"style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/bunny.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\":bunny:\" border=\"0\" alt=\"bunny.gif\" /> <img src=\"style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/bunny.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\":bunny:\" border=\"0\" alt=\"bunny.gif\" /> You don't have them yet because there aren't enough Mac's out there! The script kiddies don't want to waste there time writing virus/Trojans for thousands of Mac's they want to write them for millions of pc's. <img src=\"style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\":tongue:\" border=\"0\" alt=\"tongue.gif\" />-Jared<!--QuoteEnd</div><!--QuoteEEndpost of the day!...LOL....down with Mac and Jobs the Cyborg.... <img src=\"style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\"
\" border=\"0\" alt=\"tongue.gif\" /> take care,Tommy