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Message # 37212.1.1 Subject: This is definitely a trojan!!!! Date: Wed 10/09/08 22:12:50 GMT Name: Hobie |
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This is definitely a trojan!!!! There are quite a few mails like this going around! They have subjects like: - #832445 Lieferung (Delivery) - Message you sent blocked by our bulk email filter - Das Geld wurde Ihnen uberwiesen (the money has been transferred to you) - UPS Ship Notification Tracking Number 1Z02A6F70444847482 - Your Online Flight Ticket N 90199 The last one I got, was this mail: Von: Viola Kane [xxxxxxx@hotmail.de] Gesendet: Dienstag, 9. September 2008 04:50 An: xxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxx.xx Betreff: I am wait your reply Anlagen: IPLOGS.zip To Whom It May Concern: I am tired of receiving messages containing malicious computer programs (viruses) from your e-mail address!!! If within 1-2 days you do not stop sending messages to my e-mail address, I will have to address this issue to the Police!... Today I received a hard copy of your data logs from my Internet service provider. The copy contains your IP address, logs of sending malicious programs and your e-mail address details... I am sending you the copy of the document containing your data and logs of sending malicious programs as the proof of your fault!!!!!! You must print the document containing the list of your data and logs of sending malicious programs and pass it on to your Internet service provider with, so that they could find out why the viruses are sent from your computer to my e-mail address!!!! Ask your Internet service provider to resolve this problem!!!! Do this now!!! Once again!!! If you don’t stop sending the letters, I will address to the Police and file a lawsuit against you!!! The objective of the spammer is allways to get you to open the attached file. If you do so, things really get nasty. One or more files will be downloaded to your computer. Your screensaver will be replaced, and you will get a notification, that your computer has been infected by a large number of virusses, which is of course a fake notification, it prompts you to get an anti-virus sw. When you really have bad luck, your computer will start sending spamm-mails itself in a quantity, that will make normal working with your pc impossible. I've seen all this on a (one) clients computer. therefore: NEVER OPEN AN ATTACHED FILE!!! better: never open the mail at all, if it is in html format. Html alows code to be executed, so if you open the mail, the code will be executed while opening the mail. This code could do just about anything, mostly though it will download malware. A lot of spammers can manipulate mails in a way, that they appear to come from reliable adresses like UPS, your national snail-mail company like 'die post' here in Switzerland. They can even make it look like they come from a friend, because they find your mailadress in your friend's adressbook. Mostly the subject will make you suspicious. Now how can you open a mail, that looks suspicious, but you're not shure if it is malware? This is very easy: rightclick the mail and choose 'save file as' (you all know how to do this ;-)) Then - and this is very important - CHANGE THE FILE FORMAT TO: '*.TXT'. --> e.g. 'Your Online Flight Ticket N 90199.txt' Open an explorer window and open the textfile. In textfiles no code can be executed, so you will be able to see the text in the mail. If you are really shure, the mail is clean, then you can open the original mail. Good luck! |
In reply to Message (37212.1) Re: OT - probable virus alert
By Scally - Wed 10/09/08 20:55:09 GMT it could be a phishing email as well |
In reply to Message (37212) OT - probable virus alert
By waterspaniel - Wed 10/09/08 20:20:54 GMT If you get an e-mail like this, DO Not click on the attachment for the receipt, supposedly from United Parcel Service, it is almost certainly a virus:
Unfortunately we were not able to deliver postal package you sent on September the 1st in time because the recipient’s address is not correct. Please print out the invoice copy attached and collect the package at our office
There are several suspicious things about this: 1. I didn't send any "postal package" on Sept. 1. 2. If this is UPS, why are they calling it a "postal package"? UPS doesn't refer to their parcels that way. 3. How did UPS get my e-mail address? I never gave it to them. 4. If the package is not deliverable UPS simply returns it to you, they don't send you an e-mail to come to their office and pick it up. 5. What do they mean by "in time"? If it's overnight delivery and they don't deliver it overnight, they simply refund your extra cost. 6.. Where are their offices located? They don't say.
Again, this has to be a virus. BE WARY.
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