Dear user of Yahoo.com,
Some of our clients complained about the spam (negative e-mail
content)
outgoing from your e-mail account. Probably, you have been infected by
a proxy-relay trojan server. In order to keep your computer safe,
follow the instructions.
Advanced details can be found in attached file.
Kind regards,
The Yahoo.com team http://www.yahoo.com
Attached was a file. I don't open files by people I don't know, and this looks like a scam to me. Do any of you know? I run Adaware and Zonealarm all the times, so I don't know how this could be.
I wouldn't open it.
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ACES! Another post by Nae:
I got an email today from noreply@yahoo.com, this is what it said..Dear user of Yahoo.com,
Some of our clients complained about the spam (negative e-mail
content)
outgoing from your e-mail account. Probably, you have been infected by
a proxy-relay trojan server. In order to keep your computer safe,
follow the instructions.Advanced details can be found in attached file.
Kind regards,
The Yahoo.com team http://www.yahoo.comAttached was a file. I don't open files by people I don't know, and this looks like a scam to me. Do any of you know? I run Adaware and Zonealarm all the times, so I don't know how this could be.
This is most likely a scam. A number of email servers out there have recently sent out very similar messages.
I'm seeing it sent to my users.
Someone has your email address in their address book and got infected. It's forging the emails to look like it comes from the administration of whatever domain it's sending the address to (yahoo.com, aol.com, etc).
The virus is contained in a password protected zip file. Since the AV scanner software doesn't have the password, it can't open it and actually scan it so as far as it's concerned, it's not a virus. It gets through, you open the zip with the supplied password and run the file... BAMMO, you're infected.
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There's a particularly nasty virus out there right now that checks your e-mail domain and tailors the virus e-mail to look like it is coming from there and asks you to open an attachment to configure your e-mail. Thus, if you have an @allakhazam.com address, it will look like it comes from us. It doesn't! Do not open that attachment! (Or for that matter any attachment - We do not send out e-mails with attachments in them). And please get a virus program and keep it up to date. I wish I could track down the people who write these things and stake them naked on an anthill with honey smeared all over them.
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Nae wrote, obviously thinking too hard:
Okay.. should I report it to Yahoo then?
Yes.
Whoever is sending this out claims to be representing Yahoo.com
My knowledge of law isn't that of our resident lawyer (Gydyon, ahoy!) but it strikes me that the company might have grounds for a lawsuit based on misuse of a registered company name (particularly if it *IS* a virus in that thing).
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Legonaire's unholy Backstreet Boys obsession manifested in:
Took this quote from Allah's front page of his Evercrest Website.
Someone else has an Evercrest webiste? SUE SUE SUE
Thinking about your posts
(and billing you for it) since 2001
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Nae wrote this stupid crap:
I got an email today from noreply@yahoo.com, this is what it said..Dear user of Yahoo.com,
Some of our clients complained about the spam (negative e-mail
content)
outgoing from your e-mail account. Probably, you have been infected by
a proxy-relay trojan server. In order to keep your computer safe,
follow the instructions.Advanced details can be found in attached file.
Kind regards,
The Yahoo.com team http://www.yahoo.comAttached was a file. I don't open files by people I don't know, and this looks like a scam to me. Do any of you know? I run Adaware and Zonealarm all the times, so I don't know how this could be.
Scam, I got one from noreply@sjsu.edu yesterday. The file is an archive with the .doc extension but when it opens it's an exe. THEN later I got one from sysop@sjsu.edu
hate this crap [ 03-04-2004: Message edited by: Kermitov ]
[ 03-04-2004: Message edited by: Mod ]
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Abbikat said this about your mom:
Yes.
Whoever is sending this out claims to be representing Yahoo.comMy knowledge of law isn't that of our resident lawyer (Gydyon, ahoy!) but it strikes me that the company might have grounds for a lawsuit based on misuse of a registered company name (particularly if it *IS* a virus in that thing).
And who will Yahoo charge or somehow make it stop?
The second one had this text:
quote:
Dear user of [censored].org,Our main mailing server will be temporary unavaible for next two days,
to continue receiving mail in these days you have to configure our free auto-forwarding service.For more information see the attached file.
In order to read the attach you have to use the following password: 27824.
The Management,
The [censored].org team http://www.[censored].org
The inconsistent spaces and attached files were a "red-flag" for me.
I contribute nothing.
Edit: Make that three emails now. [ 03-04-2004: Message edited by: Vernaltemptress ]
