email ultimate dirty trick

Re: email ultimate dirty trick

Sue McLam, Orange, VT

>Yea, I've got three this morning so far. The emails look like they're from me to me (i.e. from staff@knoxmountain.com to sue@knoxmountain.com). The last one says that if I don't open the attachment and do what it says then I will lose my email capabilities in two days. I deleted all three.

If there's a virus in those attachments then Norton isn't picking it up.

Sue

Re: email ultimate dirty trick

Chuck Ludwigsen

>You know, our moms used to tell us not to put anything in our mouths if we didn't know where it has been. Now we have to tell our kids (and ourselves) not to put anything in our computers if we don't know where it came from...

Amazing. I wish those that write vicious programs would get a real life.

Chuck in Memphis, TN.

17 year professional in IT software development. I hope these guys don't give us all a bad name.

Re: email ultimate dirty trick

Ryan McMullen

>I just got one of those too, unfortunately I am my own ISP. Go figure, my "team" (guess that would be ME) just sent ME an email about the amount of spam coming from ME. And now THEY (really ME) want ME to install something on MY computer?? I'm confused, am I really sending the spam or are they sending the spam? Guess I better email the system administrator to see what this is all about, wonder how long it'll take to reply to myself?

Now, since the message came from me to me do I know myself better than my wife? I�ll let her answer that one!

BTW Chuck, since I'm sending so much spam, you might be as well, I'll forward you the instructions I gave myself to fix the problem. ;-)

Re: email ultimate dirty trick

Chuck Ludwigsen

>I just got one too. And like Ryan, I AM MY OWN ISP for everything but the physical connection. I host my own email, web server, DNS, DHCP, database, mailing lists, EVERYTHING on my own server.

This came to me saying it was FROM ME!!!! Maybe Ryan and I are starting to talk to ourselves too much. I usually only do that when I have a big catch at the lathe.

Anyway, a further look at the headers from both mine and Ryan's messages helped us see who this was really from.

Here is the text of the message I sent myself... Watch out and keep yourself clean.

Chuck in Memphis, TN.

Dear user of Ludwigsen.org gateway e-mail server,

We warn you about some attacks on your e-mail account. Your computer may

contain viruses, in order to keep your computer and e-mail account safe,

please, follow the instructions.

Advanced details can be found in attached file.

For security purposes the attached file is password protected. Password is "

11588".

Sincerely,

The Ludwigsen.org team http://www.ludwigsen.org

Re: email ultimate dirty trick

TDaniel

>I just got an email from my real ISP server. They informed me that this is the W32.beaver bug. Do not open it. It will start off something like: "your server will be out of service for the next two days.....to keep getting your emails you must click on the following to forward your mail to another server". Delete this email immediately.

TD