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The latest psych trick for viruses

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I just got this from "noreply@stardestroyer.net":
Dear user of e-mail server "Stardestroyer.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.

For security reasons attached file is password protected. The password is "86132".

Have a good day,
The Stardestroyer.net team http://www.stardestroyer.net

Attachment: Readme.zip
Very clever way of trying to trick somebody into clicking on a virus, isn't it? Useless against my Linux box, but clever nonetheless. These bastards really make it look official.
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I suppose that only goes to those who have @stardestroyer.net addresses?

Anyway, anyone around here can probably guess that there is no "Stardestroyer.net Team" to send them stuff, just you. :)

Still, very clever indeed.
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Darth Wong wrote:I just got this from "noreply@stardestroyer.net":
Dear user of e-mail server "Stardestroyer.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.

For security reasons attached file is password protected. The password is "86132".

Have a good day,
The Stardestroyer.net team http://www.stardestroyer.net

Attachment: Readme.zip
Very clever way of trying to trick somebody into clicking on a virus, isn't it? Useless against my Linux box, but clever nonetheless. These bastards really make it look official.
AOL had such a problem with convincing emails that they had to make their official emails color coded. These people are good at making it seem legit.
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Hmm I've been seeing similar things floating around seemingly originating from my company's email adresses...
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If I don't know who it's from, I bin it. That goes double if it has an attachment or bad spelling and the word "penis" mentioned more than once.
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IB mentioned something similar to that before, didn't she?
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This trick's been around for a while. E-mails claiming to be from PayPal with attachments that would prompt the user for his PayPal account name and password and send them off to the author's server were pretty common at one point.
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Straha wrote:IB mentioned something similar to that before, didn't she?
Yeah. These have been sent to other domains, as well. The end tag is always "The <domain here> Team," which makes it look sorta official. Though I've not seen it sent to a domain that actually has what would be called a "team" running it. ("Stardestroyer.net Team"? "Odu.edu Team"? Yeah, right.)
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Darth Wong wrote: Very clever way of trying to trick somebody into clicking on a virus, isn't it? Useless against my Linux box, but clever nonetheless. These bastards really make it look official.
Got their IP addy for us to.......play with :twisted:
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MKSheppard wrote:Got their IP addy for us to.......play with :twisted:
Pointless. It's probably a zombie PC running Windows, which belongs to some clueless user in Upper Bumfuck, Noplaceinparticular.
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