yet another humorous email virus

[Krusty]

Interesting email my roommate got today. It, of course, arrived with a virus attached to it. It's one of the more creative ones I've seen. This one appears to come from support@yourdomain. I bet it would fool quite a few people since, even with everyones crazy non-yahoo, non-aol addresses, it still comes from support@yourdomain.

The thing I find really funny about this email is that splorg.org just happens to be sitting in my living room. Who would've thought that my roommate would send an email to himself informing him that his own email will be cancelled?

> From: support@SPLORG.ORG
> Date: March 3, 2004 3:35:46 PM PST
> To: *email deleted*@SPLORG.ORG
> Subject: Notify about using the e-mail account.
>
> Dear user, the management of SPLORG.ORG mailing system wants to let
> you know that,
>
> Your e-mail account will be disabled because of improper using in
> next
> three days, if you are still wishing to use it, please, resign your
> account information.
>
> Further details can be obtained from attached file.
>
> The Management,
> The SPLORG.ORG team
> http://www.sPLORG.ORG

[Stedeman]

I got the same one but yahoo :-/ I like the ones where they are just learn english; "yosh shood klik this link to fixted yosh proplem" it make me feel like I got on the special SPAM mail list :bang head

[KaHNZa]

OMG thats funny. I have yet to get one like that. But maybe Hotmail has blocked it or something. No matter what though it would get deleted.

[Th0r]

I get nothing like that in my hotmail accounts...hehe

[JoT]

A friend of mine got one from Mozilla yesterday :rolleyes: (an email, I mean)

[Pinky]

We're getting hit hard here at work, too many morons and not enough filters... :rolleyes:

[Stedeman]

There seems to be a big virus war going on, the old "mines better than yours". I was just told there is one virus that is going around killing all the other viruses and it has the virus scan people all discombobulated.
Should be a fun few weeks...

[JoT]

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=4491204&section=news

Good read, I laughed, I cried, I patched AVG.

[Krusty]

I can't believe the idiocy of people out there. Apparently this is a pretty rampant virus. I just got an official email in my UCSD account warning me not to open attachments from "official" emails.

WTF kind of people blindly run attachments from bizzare emails over and over and over again?? You'd think they would only do it one time and that trick would no longer work.

[tom10167]

Whoa, how do they manage to set up that e-mail address? I've never seen anything like that, at least I don't think.

[Krusty]

Originally posted by tom10167
Whoa, how do they manage to set up that e-mail address? I've never seen anything like that, at least I don't think.

AFAIK, they just need to bounce it off of another server somewhere and claim that the email is from the address they choose. If you look at the headers, you could often see that it comes from a different address than the message claims.

[SunRedRX7]

These viruses are really getting on my nerves. I must get asked 10 times a day if this file is safe to open(we rarely get file attachments sent to people).

Then again I prefer the people that do ask, as oppose to the Head of Engineering who just deceides that screensaver that was emailed to him must be really cool so he runs it, THEN DISABLES THE ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE AFTER IT WARNS HIM NOT TO RUN THE FILE, and then his address book is used to send the virus out to everyone else in the office.

Well at least we tracked it down, and set his AV software to delete all infected files by default.

[Cjwinnit]

Does anyone spam spammers? I mean they must like spam so much if they spend their lives giving it to other people for free, we might make their day......

*me digs out some 700MiB Overclockix ISO's to send*

[SunRedRX7]

Hows this for spamming a spammer
http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwend6_20021206.htm

[Cjwinnit]

Originally posted by SunRedRX7
Hows this for spamming a spammer
http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwend6_20021206.htm

Whoa. From that page to another:


"Ralsky, meanwhile, is looking at new technology. Recently he's been talking to two computer programmers in Romania who have developed what could be called stealth spam.

It is intricate computer software, said Ralsky, that can detect computers that are online and then be programmed to flash them a pop-up ad, much like the kind that display whenever a particular Web site is opened.

"This is even better," he said. "You don't have to be on a Web site at all. You can just have your computer on, connected to the Internet, reading e-mail or just idling and, bam, this program detects your presence and up pops the message on your screen, past firewalls, past anti-spam programs, past anything.

"Isn't technology great?""



Did someone bully him as a child?

[tom10167]

From a technological standpoint, that is pretty cool. I'm also pretty sure that if I had the option of getting rich at the cost of.. slightly irritating people then, yes, I would do it.

[Cjwinnit]

Originally posted by tom10167
I'm also pretty sure that if I had the option of getting rich at the cost of.. slightly irritating people then, yes, I would do it.

I vehemently disagree, there are more important things than money.

[tom10167]

Is clicking a mouse button one of them? *shrug*

[Stedeman]

"Slightly irritating people" is an understatement. No one should have the right (nor do I think it is even legal to do) to force there way on your computer. If I am on a site and get a pop up thats fine but for just turning on my rig thats total BS. I understand it's an advancement in tech but it is one of little or no value.

[Dylruss]

Imagine being in the ISP buisness (i.e. ME), and getting calls after calls and e-mails in the support account. BLAH!