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Nodtveidt Demon Hunter
Joined: 11 Nov 2002 Posts: 786 Location: Camuy, PR
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Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 8:09 pm Post subject: Potential new virus? |
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I just got an email from "Disp<disp10@msn.com>" with no subject line. The body's contents said "new price" and it included a 5.95KB file called new_price.zip. It is highly likely to be some sort of worm or virus. Just a warning to anyone else who may have gotten this message or gets it in the future.
EDIT: Yup, as suspected, it's a virus. And it was just discovered today too:
http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_127423.htm
It's not tremendously deadly but it's certainly going to cause problems for some people. _________________ If you play a Microsoft CD backwards you can hear demonic voices. The scary part is that if you play it forwards it installs Windows. - wallace
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Ninkazu Demon Hunter
Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 945 Location: Location:
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Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 9:32 pm Post subject: |
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Like for my dad, who got an email from "eBay" with a zip attachment which he proceeded to open and run the executable inside.
Fucking stupid man.
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Sirocco Mage
Joined: 01 Jun 2002 Posts: 345
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Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 4:53 am Post subject: |
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The hardest thing I had to do was explain to my boss that the email he just received from the president of the company, containing the phrase "Hey bud, check this out!" and bearing a wholly unfamiliar attachment, was actually the result of a virus.
After a few minutes of explaining things like communication layers, sockets, ports, etc... he got that fifty yard stare, and said:
"But, it says here it came from xxxxxxxx." (Where xxxxxxxx is the name of the president of our company. Name withheld to protect the idiotic.)
I finally said "Look, has the president of the company actually said more than three words to you during the course of your employment? I see you're shaking your head. This is good. Why on earth would he actually email YOU... ANYTHING?!"
That got the point across.
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