Email WARNING!

[montezumaz]

If you receive an email from the Department of Health telling you not to eat tinned pork because of swine flu … ignore it.
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It's just Spam.

 

[84CJ]

I got an e-mail at work asking not to open E-Cards from hallmark aperantly there is a virus going around in the cards.

 

[DeathGrip]

Get well soon

Happy birthday?

 

[MK]

I got an e-mail at work asking not to open E-Cards from hallmark aperantly there is a virus going around in the cards.

Yep, and there are also other varieties.. I got one two days ago..
My fault really, as I know not to open attachments.
But I was in a hurry and got kinda suckered into it.
The one I got was an invitation from a twitter member to
join their page or whatever. And they gave an attachment
with an invitation card showing who sent the invite..
Well.... @#$% Dummy me wasn't thinking straight and I
did something I've told 9 zillion people not to do..
I opened the attachment which was an exe file.. #$%@
I won't be doing that again.
The reason I did it was I thought it was from one of my relatives
who are always sending me stuff like that.. Nope..

It shut off my anti-virus with a registry entry, and also
semi highjacked my browser. None the the anti virus programs
would detect it. AD-aware ignored it.. Ditto for Spy-bot..
So I had to go through all the various folders and note
which ones were added or changed at the exact time I
opened the file. Then I was able to manually cripple the
thing so it couldn't do anything. I then finally found a program
that seemed to deal with the registry entries, so hopefully
got that cleaned up. "Malwarebytes"
I had to reinstall the McAfee security center suite to
fix the anti virus.
So trust me, if anyone gets any kind of attachment
saying *anything*.exe, flush it in the trash bin. Don't
open.
I was able to clear it up, and I did have two more clean
bootable drives, but it was still a pain in the rear for a
few hours.
I got three different versions of that virus that day.
The twitter, the hallmark card, and I got a third one
which was a fake shipping update e-mail from Amazon.
It asked you to check the attachment for the shipping
details.. :/
So it's coming with various sets of ruses to get people
to open the file.
The virus is not easy to get rid of as far as viruses go
these days. Most programs are not seeing it. And *none*
I've run yet have detected the "moved" virus files that
I placed in a folder. Or the original zip file or e-mail for
that matter. My AV was *supposed* to catch stuff like
that. But the virus said P on U, and turned the AV off.

 

[s&wchad]

If you receive an email from the Department of Health telling you not to eat tinned pork because of swine flu … ignore it.
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It's just Spam.

I get it!!!

My wife even laughed (a little)!

 

[mtb1bkr]

If you receive an email from the Department of Health telling you not to eat tinned pork because of swine flu … ignore it.
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It's just Spam.

I shudder to think that some of the fine folks on this board don't even know what Spam is.

Bill

 

[Engineer1911]

Identifying Spam as a meat is the just like saying S&W and Taurus are the same--pull the trigger and bang.

 

[EvelMe]

I LOOOOOOOOOOOOVE fried Spam! Good, good, good!

 

[Sven]

I get it, too. Good one montezumaz.

Dice it up and put it your scrambled eggs.

 

[mississippi revolverman]

Heck, I even have a Span cook book with 50 recipies. Boy I need to go get a new gun and find a life

 

[Jack Flash]

Anyone who doesn't know what spam is doesn't know how fortunate he is.

 

[84CJ]

I missed it first time around. And I know spam.
I heard the swooooosh as it went over my head