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: Zorac (zorac) wrote,
2004-03-05 14:32:00

Zorac
zorac
2004-03-05 14:32:00

Mood: irked

Attn t00bs:

I've had a report of the following email going to someone with a t00b.net email account:

Dear user of T00b.net,

Some of our clients complained about the spam (negative e-mail content) outgoing from your e-mail account. Probably, you have been infected by a proxy-relay trojan server. In order to keep your computer safe, follow the instructions.

Pay attention on attached file.

Have a good day,
The T00b.net team http://www.t00b.net

This email is not from me; the address etc has been forged. The attachment is almost certainly a virus which will install one of the aforementioned proxy-relay trojan servers on your machine.

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folk

March 5 2004, 08:27:00 UTC 17 years ago

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Yeah, it's a virus, called Beagle. There's a Symantec page on it which I saw yesterday but can't link now because I'm on 2Kbps dialup. -.-

ringbark

March 5 2004, 12:09:40 UTC 17 years ago

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One day, there will be a vitus writer who has English as his first language or is fluent in English.
When this happens, our first line of defence against viruses will have been destroyed.
The message you quoted does not contain any spelling mistakes or typos, which is another art of the same safeguard already under threat.

leiabelle

March 7 2004, 07:27:48 UTC 17 years ago

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I got the same email from "management @ ufl.edu" (my university's domain). Fortunately the misspellings in it, coupled with Basic Common Sense, assured me that it was a fake. Made me wonder how many people fell for it though.

proxy-relay trojan

Anonymous

April 22 2004, 20:44:08 UTC 17 years ago

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Hello .. I got this e-mail Today.. and the file was called Information.pif
.pif file

Is this for real or should I ignore it??

From: noreply@yahoo.com
Hello user of Yahoo.com e-mail server,

Some of our clients complained about the spam (negative e-mail content)
outgoing from your e-mail account. Probably, you have been infected by
a proxy-relay trojan server. In order to keep your computer safe,
follow the instructions.

Pay attention on attached file.

Cheers,
The Yahoo.com team http://www.yahoo.com