Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Warning! - New Virus trick

Spanki opened this issue on Apr 13, 2004 ยท 33 posts


Spanki posted Tue, 13 April 2004 at 12:17 PM

Sorry if this has been mentioned before, but there seems to be a cute new way of naming attatched e-mail virus files. The most recent one I recieved was addressed from: "abuse@gov.us" oooh... very official/scary sounding! ;) The title of the e-mail was: "Internet Provider Abuse" and the text of the message was: "I noticed that you have visited illegal websites. See the name in the list!" ...so anyway, there's an attatched file named "spanki_details.zip" and inside the zip file is what LOOKS like an .rtf file (Rich Text Format - which can be read with NotePad or WordPad)... BUT (and this is the tricky part, so pay attention) after the '.rtf' extension is a whole bunch of spaces and then a '.scr' extentsion. If you just double-clicked on that, it would execute the program/virus! (obviously I didn't run it - I knew it was a virus as soon as I saw the 'from' field). As always, your best bet is to never open anything unless you're expecting it from someone you know ahead of time - or at the very least be very suspicious of any unexpected attachments and take proper precautions.

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