Reverend Virus

[CheeZee]

..just a note to let you guyz and gurlz know that the Rev' will be offline for a short while ... some kind of virus has wiped out his pc' .. i keep telling him to slip something over his modem ..but would he listen ...! !

[essex sucks]

get well soon rev's pc

[kitesurfer]

There has been a recent increase in dodgy spam emails linking to infected sites.
Provided by xswind have a read of the following.

Security experts have warned of an outbreak of malicious spam emails that use log-in account confirmation details as a hook to get users to visit an infected website.

The Marshal TRACE threat research team said that the emails appear to come from a legitimate organisation and provide recipients with temporary log-in confirmation details for a website.

The spam uses text like 'for security purposes, please login and change the temporary Login ID and Password', and include a link to an IP address which is in fact a website infected with the Storm Trojan.

The messages appear to come from the technical support departments of a range of organisations with names designed to generate interest among the public, such as 'Joke-A-Day' and 'Web Players'. The links appear as a numerical IP address rather than a URL.

"We are seeing significant volumes of 'confirmation spam' hitting inboxes," said Bradley Anstis, director of product management at Marshal.

"This outbreak is the latest in a string of social engineering tactics used by the same individuals responsible for the Storm Trojan to propagate their botnet.

"These criminals are clever and highly adaptive. This is simply their latest attempt to fool unsuspecting email users into infecting themselves."

The Storm Trojan first appeared in January 2007. It quickly achieved success and notoriety by using the guise of current affairs headlines to fool unsuspecting recipients into clicking on a link which led to the Trojan.

Examples of the headlines used included 'Saddam Hussein alive!' and 'Chinese missile shot down by USA aircraft'.

Since then the criminals behind the Trojan have used greeting cards to infect computers with subjects ranging from the 4th of July to Thank You cards.

"The 'confirmation spam' outbreak has been launched by the same group that launched the Hot Pictures spam campaign earlier in the week," said Anstis.

"Previously these spam campaigns, like the greeting card campaign, would last for weeks at a time. Now, spammers are modifying or launching new spam campaigns almost daily.

"Our advice to anyone who receives a message like this from a person they do not know, or have not heard from for a long time, is to delete it without opening it.

"Certainly, do not click on the link in the message and do not click 'OK' if it asks to download a file."

Further details and advice on the Storm Trojan can be found on Marshal's TRACE Center website.

KS

[drowningbitbybit]

Yup, Ive had several emails today 'confirming' my new sign in details at www.youwouldreallyhavetobesomekindofprattoclickhere.com

And the whole internet world seems to be going slooooooooooowly... or am I just being a little impatient today?

[CheeZee]

yep yep ..ive had heaps of spammage this month .. You have received an Ecard blah blah ... you need to sign in here blah blah ... your inteligence is being insulted, sign in here blah blah

but same as you bro .. everyting is running a bit slow today ..or maybe we are moving faster than usual bro ... hmmm ... either way something somewhere is not moving at precisely the right speed to maintian my optimum rate of skive ...

[Real Pol]

Yup, Ive had several emails today 'confirming' my new sign in details at www.youwouldreallyhavetobesomekindofprattoclickhere.com

That link you've posted doesn't work DBBB, have you got another one?

[Sar]

I'd wondered where he had got to.

get well soon the 'rev's' pc - chicken soup is on its way.

I havent had any misfortune with viruses yet....the other half on the other hand got a new computer and didnt install AVG properly. Poor little laptop only lasted 3 days I am pleased to say it has made a full recovery but it did give us a bit of a scare.

[Big Man]

That'll teach him to go looking at those dodgy sites


feel for ya man, viruses are the pits

[Sar]

......just got home and his computer is fecked again! 26 viruses found and counting tracking cookies or somthing sending him to the wrong sites and autodownloading more viruses etc etc

Fortunately we have an 'Olly' (old friend who knows stuff about stuff) who is fixing it online....dunno how, msn server remote access thingysomethingorother.

Cheezee - If the rev can get online at all pass on my number and I will see if I can arrange for Olly to fix it via remote access. Will find the superduper virus killer thingy he has found too and pass it on.

[Sar]

That'll teach him to go looking at those dodgy sites

hmm, I was thinking the exact same thing.....funny how these things happen at home when Im pulling the long days at work

[Luke]

...Will find the superduper virus killer thingy he has found too and pass it on.

I could do with one of them ...i've got one but it keeps telling me that my subscription has expired.

[essex sucks]

what u been sign upto then luke noot more porn sites

[Luke]

what u been sign upto then luke noot more porn sites

Aye, it's true, i've been searching for wetsuit fetish dwarf porn,
featuring Steph from neighbours....but alas, no joy.

[essex sucks]

what u been sign upto then luke noot more porn sites

Aye, it's true, i've been searching for wetsuit fetish dwarf porn,
featuring Steph from neighbours....but alas, no joy.

haha i will get u a beer for coming up with that reply

[thaya]

get well soon

[CheeZee]

featuring Steph from neighbours

... hehehe class ..random ... class

[Stone Fox]

Yup, Ive had several emails today 'confirming' my new sign in details at www.youwouldreallyhavetobesomekindofprattoclickhere.com

That link you've posted doesn't work DBBB, have you got another one?

Get well soon rev's PC!

[CheeZee]

Cheezee - If the rev can get online at all pass on my number and I will see if I can arrange for Olly to fix it via remote access. Will find the superduper virus killer thingy he has found too and pass it on.

..i would do dudette , but he's never given me a mobby number ! ..i reckon its cause the signal would mess with the security equipment used at his particular sanitarium

[^*^BATMAN^*^]

...Will find the superduper virus killer thingy he has found too and pass it on.

I could do with one of them ...i've got one but it keeps telling me that my subscription has expired.

So renew it. With an old subsricption, you will not get the new virus definitions. So any new virus will not be detected, nor protected against damage.

Sar- What you are probably thinking of is called Remote Assistance, it is built into windows. Nice little tool, though a large security issue(last time I checked). I have it dissabled on my computer so I just dont have to think about it.

[northswell]

Running a commercial site i get loads of spam emails everyday, just delete them.

I have been tempted by the approx ten million quid i've apparently won over the past few weeks tho