Virus Warning... O.o
I think the majority of us know about this, but for those who don't, I thought I'd make a topic for it.
We determined in that Saturday IRC chat that there's an e-mail virus going around that masks itself as various forum members. So far I've gotten 3, supposedly from Kira and PHJ. The e-mails usually say stuff like, "Re: Hi" "Msg Reply" or "Forum notice", and have an attachment. DON'T OPEN THESE! They're NOT from forum members, and are just an evil virus waiting to be unleashed on your computer. :evil: So, to recap. If you get an e-mail from a forum member, either ask the person if they sent it, or delete it! So, there's your warning. Viruses are bad. Rawr. :evil: |
Well, that doesn't sound good. Thanks for the warning, Fuyu.
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is it one of those attachments that are 26kb big and have the extension .zlo?
I usually don't open them :wink: |
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but I guess it is some e-mail-program-internal-file-thingy I dunno as I said I never opened one but I heard from someone who did, that his computer blue-screened and a couple of files were missing and so on :wink: |
I don't know what the attachment was, I didn't open it. :roll:
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Actually, I've been meaning to say something about this.
During the last 10 days or so, I received messages which look like they're from PHJ, cat and Derek, with titles like "change" or "notification". Due to the recent "upgrade" of Yahoo Mail, which now usually causes my system to freeze whenever I attempt access, I haven't been able to actually open any except one -- a message ostensibly from PHJ consisting of the text "toy.scr" and an attachment in which Yahoo scan detects a Beagle virus. I'd been wondering why I suddenly started receiving emails from y'all and was hoping I hadn't done something wrong. |
I've been getting them too, I had one "from" Zeke! But realised it was a virus and deleted it. Any clue where these are coming from? I hardly think it's a coincidence.
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you can make up any extension you want
you only have to make sure that the extension is somehow executive..... now you say it.....I doubt that is mean zloty too. :wink: |
I've gotten several of these, but they were in my bulk box, plus I didn't recognize the sender, so I deleted them. I figured it was a virus once I saw several of these.
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I haven't been getting any of those, actually. In what way do they look like they're coming from forumgoers?
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Well, that's obviously fake then.
*Looks around shiftily* |
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I just got one from Neo, under the name Taybar 19. It had the subject "protected message" and appered to be carrying multiple attachments. :?
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Maybe it can be the Super Quick Posting Power Inflatable Squeaky Hammer of Thwapping. You'll never be able to remember the name, therefore you'll never see it coming until it's too late... Muahaha... :3 |
I`ve been getting those too! Supposedly from Zeke, Kira, Marc... And Marc told me he got one from me... Weird. Evil viruses.
BTW, about the attachment .zlo... "Zlo" means "Evil" in Croatian, :twisted: How dubious... |
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I just got one from "Tayawhitestar"
is that one of the forumgoers? well, but my email provider erased the annex with the virus Worm.Bagle.Gen-zippwd but informed me that it was there... @ nic: that might be the best extension for a file that is carrying a virus "evil" |
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Yeah that's 17... So they don't all list us as our usernames, hm? So now I wonder, do they go around by multiple names per forumgoer? Not that it really matters... I'm just curious.
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They appear to be using IM names, at least when possible ;)
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So you think you are safe because you do not use IM?
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I also got 2 from "aozm" infected with Virus "Worm.Bagle.Z"
is that a member of the forum too? |
Not that I know.
Who doesn't use IM? |
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^ Got one of those this morning.
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does anybody know "Saberlime"?
got a mail "forum notify" infected with Virus "Worm.Bagle.Gen-zippwd" again |
I've actually yet to get one of these. Very strange.
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Got another one this morning from "Azom" or something like that... :/ |
That's FREAKY.
I haven't gotten any of those, truthfully... for which I am thankful. But then again, neither of the three email addresses I use regularly are associated with this board; I haven't yet checked the one which is. If someone, or something is hacking into the board databases I think we oughta let someone on the PhpBB admin know about it. It's scary. |
A while back, I got a few bounced messages from Zeke, but none directed at me.
I highly doubt anybody's hacking into the database. More likely, they're just collecting the emails from everybody's profiles. |
Kinda ironic it happened when the boards changed for "added security" :wink: ...wonder what's going on. Evilness... :evil:
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We're all going to die! *screams and runs around in a circle*
I think it's time we implemented some of our "protect your planet" procedures. :wink: |
Ok, now i keep getting them from kal-el. :evil: Any takers? :wink:
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