Major Spam Warning: Trojans About

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 7:01 pm

Hi All

In 5 weeks we're moving house.

Y'day evening we took our best neighbour friends out for a meal at a Michelen starred restaurant, - a thankyou for their friendship and help over the last 12 years...........

A fantastic evening all round

This morning, in my email Inbox there was one email with the subject line of "A Card From Your Neighbour", - late as it was when we got back home last night, it didn't surprise me that our neighbours would have taken the time to send a card, so I opened the email and followed the download directions ...........

Bad move

A Google on the theme, be the "sender" neighbour, friend, mother, aunt, etc., etc., will swiftly produce the fact that this is just a subterfuge to get you to log on to a www site that will then download a package of nasty trojans to your 'puter ................

Looks like Norton protected me, but I won't be 100% happy until Norton completes a full system scan in an hour or so .................

Moral of the story

, - unless the card email names a known friend in the subject line, ignore it

David

Post by **emanday** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 8:53 pm

Unfuriating and quite frightening David. Having only recently had a virus caught by AVG, I know how scary it is.

I got an email "Card from your daughter" a few weeks ago but didn't open it as we have all agreed not to use these online sites to send eCards and the like. While some of them are probably genuine, most are nothing more than email address harvesters.

The one you got was one of the nastier types. I hope Norton finds everything it might have "deposited" on your system.

May I suggest you also install AVG Free and let it run a scan as well. It has a reputation for finding stuff that even Norton overlooks.

fmackay · Post by **fmackay** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 9:02 pm

I also got sent one of these e cards from "a relative" - I was curious but because I was on holiday at the time and using someone else's pc I just deleted it without opening it. The fact that it didn't give the person's name in the title made me suspicious as I've had cards before and it always gave their name.

tishgibbons · Post by **tishgibbons** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 9:53 pm

Same here - almost got caught. It said card from a relative and I thought it might be a family history website or something like that. I hadn't time to open it then luckily and next day got an identical one saying card from your neighbour - both deleted pronto!

Tish

Post by **AndrewP** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 11:52 pm

McAfee Security Centre on my PC caught a series of these card from... e-mails over the past few days. As soon as I saw them gathered together,it looked wrong. That was enough for me - delete from McAfee Quarantine and off they went.

All the best,

Andrew

FionaZ · Post by **FionaZ** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 12:17 am

I had an email supposedly from my husband's cousin in Holland. The email was in a foreign language (apparently Portuguese) directing me to a website. Fortunately I did not open it as I have now received it three times!! and supect it is a virus of some sort.
Cheers, Fiona

JustJean · Post by **JustJean** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 1:01 am

I too have had a few of these just lately but all arriving in my yahoo email box. My everyday verizon one seems to have weeded any out if indeed they ever arrived at all. Interesting to note (and sad too) that this seems to be a "global attack".

Best wishes
Jean

sheilajim · Post by **sheilajim** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 1:52 am

Hi All

This kind of thing is enough to get anyone paranoid over their e-mail.

I am very careful these days on opening up any suspicious mail. Yet even with all the precautions that I take, McAfee still notifies me at least once a week that I have somehow picked up a Virus.

Regards

Bob C · Post by **Bob C** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 2:11 am

JustJean wrote: ... that this seems to be a "global attack".

Jean

There was a posting about this on a computer security site I follow this past Friday as the attack started to grow. Also, a new method of SPAM using pdf files is starting to grow. I have received five pdf messages just today but the spam filter at my ISP caught them and put them in the "Junk" folder.

Bob C

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 9:15 am

Bob C wrote: There was a posting about this on a computer security site I follow this past Friday as the attack started to grow. Also, a new method of SPAM using pdf files is starting to grow. I have received five pdf messages just today but the spam filter at my ISP caught them and put them in the "Junk" folder.

Bob C

Bob

I'd be interested, and I'm sure that many others would be as well, in knowing the details of this computer security site.

BTW, Norton gave my system a clean bill of health, but just to doublecheck, AVG is now running a full and detailed check .............

David