I'm constantly getting these emails...

Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » 2003-10-22 06:41pm

One of the emails I constantly get is an email that claims to be from Microsoft telling me I need to update Windows and the next email says (under various headers) That it is returning an undeliverable email and it would state which email is undeliverable. That latest one came from Inet.

How do I get rid of this for I think it is a virus but when I do a scan I come up clean?

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2003-10-22 06:48pm

That's Swen.

Linky to Info

Nuthing you can do somone with your e-mail is infected, just keep your AV updated and make a rule to trash those mails

Screenshot from a virus mail:

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-10-22 06:49pm

Don`t take any chance delete them.

Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » 2003-10-22 07:01pm

Faram wrote:That's Swen.

Linky to Info

Nuthing you can do somone with your e-mail is infected, just keep your AV updated and make a rule to trash those mails

Screenshot from a virus mail:

<snip>

That's it but when I used that swentool, it says that there is nothing to clean.

Vendetta · Post by **Vendetta** » 2003-10-22 07:17pm

The virus is in the emails, not your system.

Just don't run the attachment.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2003-10-22 10:54pm

I'm suprised people actually fall for that.

MICROSOFT DOES NOT SEND OUT E-MAIL ALERTS PEOPLE!

They expect YOU to visit Windows Update on your own to get them ON YOUR OWN.

namdoolb · Post by **namdoolb** » 2003-10-23 04:55am

The killer is in the little bit at the bottom, the

"please don't reply to this message......" bit.

That's always a dead giveaway that it's spam.

Anyway, if your e-mail program supports it you could try blocking incoming e-mails with that specific file attatched.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-10-23 09:59am

Vertigo1 wrote:I'm suprised people actually fall for that.

MICROSOFT DOES NOT SEND OUT E-MAIL ALERTS PEOPLE!

They do if you sign up for it, and those messages are PGP-signed, too.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2003-10-23 03:54pm

phongn wrote:
Vertigo1 wrote:I'm suprised people actually fall for that.

MICROSOFT DOES NOT SEND OUT E-MAIL ALERTS PEOPLE!
They do if you sign up for it, and those messages are PGP-signed, too.

I'm referring to unsolicited e-mails.

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-10-24 12:10am

The best part is that I think there's a troll out there deliberately doing it to annoy us.

Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » 2003-10-24 06:44pm

Dalton wrote:The best part is that I think there's a troll out there deliberately doing it to annoy us.

Can't. These emails I get are in my personal email account. No one here knows it except maybe MW (since I used my personal email to register my SDN account) and Tyralak. I use a fake email address over at ASVS.

But my guess is that it is from my ISP end. Before I switched ISPs and then switched back I had none of these emails but when I reactivaed my account, all of a sudden I get over 20 of these emails a day.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-10-24 08:44pm

I suggest filtering your mail so that large E-mails are blocked at the source. How often do you need people to send you large files anyway? The average text message is only a few kB. If you limited messages to 100kB, you would eliminate these damned 430kB attachments (and yes, I've gotten them too).

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2003-10-25 12:16am

That, and turn off HTML rendering in your e-mail client. You only want plain text to show up.

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-10-25 02:16am

Enigma wrote:Can't. These emails I get are in my personal email account. No one here knows it except maybe MW (since I used my personal email to register my SDN account) and Tyralak. I use a fake email address over at ASVS.

But my guess is that it is from my ISP end. Before I switched ISPs and then switched back I had none of these emails but when I reactivaed my account, all of a sudden I get over 20 of these emails a day.

I scanned one of the emails once. One of the recipients was enigma@qqqq.qqqq.

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2003-10-25 02:34am

Dalton wrote: I scanned one of the emails once. One of the recipients was enigma@qqqq.qqqq.

I'll go look at the emials i get at my yahoo account

EDIT, nope nothing out of whack.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-10-25 03:27am

It all started hitting everyone at ASVS the same time that all of Space Battles, and half of ASVS was handing dip-shit his ass in a debate on canon over at spacebattles.

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2003-10-25 03:51am

The Yosemite Bear wrote:It all started hitting everyone at ASVS the same time that all of Space Battles, and half of ASVS was handing dip-shit his ass in a debate on canon over at spacebattles.

How fucking convient for Scooter.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-10-25 04:10am

YEah, well the timing of it, and the fact that everyone in ASVS started getting them, even other trolls like Weyon kinda rings more then a few paranonia bells.

Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » 2003-10-25 08:56am

Dalton wrote:
Enigma wrote:<snip>
I scanned one of the emails once. One of the recipients was enigma@qqqq.qqqq.

Weird but the phony address I use is xtreme@qqqq.qqq. But how would they get my personal address since I've been careful with it?

Oh and I've made some rules in OE to delete those specific emails.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2003-10-26 12:26am

Did you ever post your e-mail address on the net at all? All it takes is for a spambot to see it and snag it.

Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » 2003-10-26 09:27am

Vertigo1 wrote:Did you ever post your e-mail address on the net at all? All it takes is for a spambot to see it and snag it.

I don't give it out to just anyone. Only to a select few. Unless the people whom I've given my email address has the virus. ??

Dillon · Post by **Dillon** » 2003-10-27 12:43am

The Yosemite Bear wrote:It all started hitting everyone at ASVS the same time that all of Space Battles, and half of ASVS was handing dip-shit his ass in a debate on canon over at spacebattles.

Actually, that would make sense since now that I think of it, I've only started recieving those phony MS updates since I've started (sparsely) posting at ASVS again.

Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » 2003-10-27 09:10am

observer_20000 wrote:
The Yosemite Bear wrote:It all started hitting everyone at ASVS the same time that all of Space Battles, and half of ASVS was handing dip-shit his ass in a debate on canon over at spacebattles.
Actually, that would make sense since now that I think of it, I've only started recieving those phony MS updates since I've started (sparsely) posting at ASVS again.

And now ASVS itself has received the phony MS updates.