If you see a link to a adult movie arriving by email it could be a worm similar to the "iloveyou" virus.
http://www.freshbusinessthinking.com/news.php?CID=&NID=6089&Title=Sex+Movie+Worm+Attacks+Globally
An e-mail that offers free sex movies is fooling victims globally, with some strands of the Windows worm offering a link to PDF that a recipient has been told to expect is infecting users' PCs around the world, warn security companies.
Security firm McAfee have said that the email, with subject line "Here you have", claims to be either Adobe PDF documents or a free porn film.
"The URL does not actually lead to a PDF document, but rather an executable in disguise, such as PDF_Document21_025542010_pdf.scr served from a different domain," McAfee have warned in their blog.
When recipients accept the link and click to open it, they get neither movies nor documents but give the malware unlimited access to their entire Outlook address book which allows the worm to send copies of itself to all contacts and email addresses it finds there.
Although not yet widespread, security firm reports have suggested that corporations including Nasa and Disney have so far been affected by the virus.
In an alert sent out to it's customers, McAfee reportedly recommended blocking .scr files at the Internet gateway.
"McAfee has received confirmation that some customers have received large volumes of spam containing a link to malware, a mass-mailing worm identified as VBMania".
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Originally posted by enrico20Bah! If they fall for that, they deserve it.
An e-mail that offers free sex movies is fooling victims globally,
"The URL does not actually lead to a PDF document, but rather an executable in disguise, such as PDF_Document21_025542010_pdf.scr served from a different domain,"
Although not yet widespread, security firm reports have suggested that corporations including Nasa and Disney have so far been affected by the virus.
Richard
Originally posted by Shallow BlueThe problem is that with many people using outlook, the worm automatically copies itself to your contacts. As the email may appear to come from someone you know, you are likely to click on it and so on...
Bah! If they fall for that, they deserve it.
Richard
Vicious cycle.
Originally posted by enrico20SONHOUSE!
If you see a link to a adult movie arriving by email it could be a worm similar to the "iloveyou" virus.
http://www.freshbusinessthinking.com/news.php?CID=&NID=6089&Title=Sex+Movie+Worm+Attacks+Globally
An e-mail that offers free sex movies is fooling victims globally, with some strands of the Windows worm offering a link to PDF that a recipient has b ...[text shortened]... umes of spam containing a link to malware, a mass-mailing worm identified as VBMania".
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Originally posted by enrico20Who is so old that they still use outlook?
The problem is that with many people using outlook, the worm automatically copies itself to your contacts. As the email may appear to come from someone you know, you are likely to click on it and so on...
Vicious cycle.
Never used it in my life, within a work environment or outside of one.
I have never been infected therefore.
Good Riddance to outlook!
As for clicking on what you think may be somebody you know...... hum.... don't you use a live scanner that warns of malware, anti-email virus, rootkit hacks etc etc?
Life isn't difficult, if you pay for what you get. 😉
I don't click on anything I get from my father, until it is scanned first........ you need to get into good habits - like those the monks wear! 😏
Originally posted by mikelomYou should have told that to Nasa, AIG, Disney, Procter & Gamble and Wells Fargo as those are some of the companies affected.
Who is so old that they still use outlook?
Never used it in my life, within a work environment or outside of one.
I have never been infected therefore.
Good Riddance to outlook!
As for clicking on what you think may be somebody you know...... hum.... don't you use a live scanner that warns of malware, anti-email virus, rootkit hacks etc etc?
L ...[text shortened]... it is scanned first........ you need to get into good habits - like those the monks wear! 😏
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11258795
Originally posted by mikelomI'm serious. Teh days of having AVGfree or some dumb*** free antivirus are over. You can bet the guys in such a hyooge network may not have their Av up to date, if a naughty email comes from Jon down the hall they will likely click on it.
Serious
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I'm not! 😛
Problem is that its not Jon its a bl****y virus. 😀
Originally posted by enrico20Who talked about free? I said you get what you pay for.............
I'm serious. Teh days of having AVGfree or some dumb*** free antivirus are over. You can bet the guys in such a hyooge network may not have their Av up to date, if a naughty email comes from Jon down the hall they will likely click on it.
Problem is that its not Jon its a bl****y virus. 😀
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Originally posted by enrico20Same argument: if they fall for that, they deserve everything they get just as well.
The problem is that with many people using outlook, the worm automatically copies itself to your contacts. As the email may appear to come from someone you know, you are likely to click on it and so on...
Vicious cycle.
Really. This is not rocket science. This is not, you know, subtle, like, claiming to be from your bank account maneger[sic]. This is a blunt, into your primitive cerebrellar centres, whack-job. If you fall for it, no matter how many excuses you have, no matter how many sysadmins you can find to whine about not giving you the latest anti-viruses and not warning you for specifically this very worm with this very subject and this very sender name, no matter how confusingly you have arranged your contact book, no matter how crappy the mail software you use, guess what? No matter what, you are to blame for all the pain you are in for.
I. Have. No. Sympathy. At. All.
Richard
Originally posted by enrico20Yeah, people still use Outlook?
The problem is that with many people using outlook, the worm automatically copies itself to your contacts. As the email may appear to come from someone you know, you are likely to click on it and so on...
Vicious cycle.
geeez...
And besides, the file has the .scr extension. Nothing like advertising that it's a script. If people are that stupid, better to get them off the internet anyways...
Originally posted by enrico20What a genius. Soon as I get an email saying anything vague like "Here you have" I delete it, especially if it has an attachment of any sort.
Here are technical details of the virus.
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/new-email-worm-turns-back-clock-virus-attacks-090910
Some dude says [b]I got one of those emails today at work. Moused over the link in Outlook 12, saw that it was really a .scr file, and deleted it.[/b]
Again, anyone who's fallen for this deserves a virus.
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Apparently the worm which wreaked havoc and accounted for 10% of spam last week was the work of a cyber-jihadist.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/13/hacker_claims_credit_for_here_you_have_worm/
A virus writer who claims to have created the 'Here you have' worm that flooded corporate email boxes last week claims the malware was designed as a propaganda tool.
The cracker, who uses an Iraq Resistance email address associated with the worm, told IDG that "the creation of this is just a tool to reach my voice to people maybe ... or maybe other things". The miscreant confessed surprise at the spread of the worm, which accounted for an estimated 10 per cent of internet spam last week, spread.
The malware contained keystroke logging software and a backdoor component. The worm, whose propagation recalled mass mailers of the past such as the Anna Kournikova worm, spread most widely in the US, where it infected systems such as Disney, Wells Fargo and NASA, among others.