Really unconvincing Viruses...

whitebloodcell · May 18, 2005

I just recieved this on my Hotmail Account, thought it was quite funny, probably the most unconvincing virus I have seen. The guy could have atleast used a Spellcheck.

Email author said:
Dear mister,

Unfortinately we must inform You that in Microsoft program equipment,
Microsoft Internet Explorer v 6 our experts of security and developement
department have found a new critical vulnerabilty. It allows hackers to
exploit your system, upload virus or trojan through the Internet, in general
known as bad-source program, set up it and steal some information, which can
be valueble.

To prevent a such situation, we strongly recommend you to update you
Microsoft Internet Explorer v 6. Please download our patch. It may save
you from fraud and make you and us sure that hackers wouldn't exploit you
Microsoft Windows.

We are sorry for inconvenience a hope you understand that there is a real
chance of damaging your computer.

Your faithfully,
Diana Bernwood,

Microsoft corporation, security and development department, post office.
© 2005 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

It has the attached file KB817487-x86.zip

I am sure this is from Microsoft....

Whats the worst attempt of a virus infection you've encountered?

Sjaak · May 18, 2005

lmao....that sucks.

Some time ago i recieved multiple mails with a .pif file attached called 'jennifer lopez nude'

whitebloodcell · May 18, 2005

Sjaak said:
lmao....that sucks.

Some time ago i recieved multiple mails with a .pif file attached called 'jennifer lopez nude'

I got a load of those over Messenger, 'Me in the bath.pif' was my favourite followed closely by 'boob.pif'

threeme2189 · May 19, 2005

ohh so sad....some people are just dumb.
well i dont get spam to my gmail *yet*. and i hope i never will.

Crana · May 19, 2005

whitebloodcell said:
I got a load of those over Messenger, 'Me in the bath.pif' was my favourite followed closely by 'boob.pif'

Thats still going round! Alot of my friends on MSN have it, it gets really annoying after a while

Luckly Hotmail's attachment scanner does a pretty good job of protecting you from those evil files

rebelwarlock · May 19, 2005

i think the worst attempt i've seen was "click this yuo don't know what your missing??"

CrystalMethod · May 19, 2005

Emails that say "You gotta check this out!!!".

Crana · May 20, 2005

Plz download nd install the attachment, its spyware and virus free!!!

"Hotmail has dected a virus"

LOL

tom10167 · May 20, 2005

.pif??

moz_21 · May 20, 2005

tom10167 said:
.pif??

Program information file. Dates back to the win 3.x era. It's basically what the shortcuts have evolved to (now .lnk).

nahmus · May 20, 2005

whitebloodcell said:
I got a load of those over Messenger, 'Me in the bath.pif' was my favourite followed closely by 'boob.pif'

I never would have fallen for that. I've seen myself in the bath pleanty of times. Why would I want a picture of that on my computer?

whitebloodcell · May 20, 2005

Its not always a case of falling for it, I have Trillian to accept any file from someone on my contact list, so I got them all from a friend, thankfully my Antivirus picked it up, but some of my other friends were not so careful, so they became infected, and then started sending me the file aswell.

rebelwarlock · May 20, 2005

i don't think viruses have to be convincing anymore. no matter how stupid the writer is, there's someone even stupider that will open it. if you released virus.exe i'm sure it would be widespread in no time.

RJARRRPCGP · Jun 6, 2005

Because of the way the first sentence is written, I would have already been suspicious, even when the file name looks legitimate.

flixotide · Jun 7, 2005

Maybe this scheme is a new way to spread a very deadly virus, have you thought of that?

They simply bore us to death!

whitebloodcell · Jun 7, 2005

I'm sure they could get a load of people, if a popup came up saying, "delete this meesage" Most people would click yes.

JigPu · Jun 8, 2005

The worst thing I've gotten is that jdbgmgr.exe hoax that seems to make it's way around the net every year or so. Amazingly it still fools people....

No fake MS emails, no PIF files. /me must be lucky or something

JigPu

rebelwarlock · Jun 9, 2005

fortunately, i know that even if microsoft had my email address, they wouldn't care enough about whether or not i'm patched to send me an email. besides, my inbox would be full if they did

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