Virus?

[whipped]

Just got a mail to my barrysworld account with the following content.

Hello there,

I would like to inform you about important information regarding your
email address. This email address will be expiring.
Please read attachment for details.

---
Best regards, Administrator
fzefjvoj

Attachment is named message.zip and will not save to my hard drive so I can scan it. Just delete it?

 

[Cdr]

I'd say so.

Delete it.

 

[Will]

As a rule of thumb, if it doesn't make any sense, delete it. If you aren't expecting it, delete it.

And if the persons name looks like he mashed the keyboard, delete it.

 

[whipped]

Hmm the mime is strange.

Received: from xl2.luton.ac.uk
by picasso.luton.ac.uk; Mon, 11 Aug 2003 14:50:45 +010

Received: from smtp-relay1.barrysworld.com (ns1.barrysworld.com [213.221.172.238])
by xl2.luton.ac.uk (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h7BDlcTH004550
for <kevin.pascoe@luton.ac.uk>; Mon, 11 Aug 2003 14:47:38 +0100 (BST)

Received: from [213.221.181.50] (helo=staff.game.net)
by smtp-relay1.barrysworld.com with esmtp (Exim 4.20)
id 19mD16-0001HB-W0
for kevin.pascoe@luton.ac.uk; Mon, 11 Aug 2003 14:47:20 +0100

Received: from SMTP32-FWD by barrysworld.com
(SMTP32) id A00000F08; Mon, 11 Aug 2003 14:51:15 +0100

Received: from smtp-relay2.barrysworld.com [213.221.172.236] by staff.game.net with ESMTP
(SMTPD32-7.15) id AAA82E900052; Mon, 11 Aug 2003 14:31:20 +0100

Received: from [168.73.245.48] (helo=localhost)
by smtp-relay2.barrysworld.com with smtp (Exim 4.20)
id 19mChj-0006hl-Lp
for whipped@barrysworld.com; Mon, 11 Aug 2003 14:27:23 +0100

 

[Cdr]

Delete - better to be safe than sorry.

 

[Wij]

Why would you possibly want to download it even if it wasn't a virus ?

 

[madcow]

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.mimail.a@mm.html

 

[Clowneh!]

heh good work you

 

[whipped]

Hmm, I should have found that. After all, I am the virus officer for my University

 

[~Lazarus~]

Originally posted by whipped
Hmm, I should have found that. After all, I am the virus officer for my University

soon to be ex-virus officer

 

[Damini]

There was a virus going about (not sure if this is the same one but sounds very similar) that says it is from admin, and hijacks the domain name so it would appear to be admin@barrysworld.com or whatever, and that virus says that the e-mail address is about to expire, and you need to click on this html file to auto renew, and the virus was embedded in the htm file. Or something similar. I have childbrain when it comes to computers, so I might have twisted this infomation about.

I read the BBC website too much

On a related note, I was websurfing earlier on, and saw something trying to download onto my PC. I couldn't work out how to stop the download, and so I just turned my PC off rather hastily.




Now Easydates_gb is sat next to my clock

YOUR MODEM WILL DIAL THE PREMIUM RATE TELEPHONE NUMBER 09099671006 BILLED £1.50/MIN WHICH MAY APPEAR ON THE TELEPHONE BILL.

MAY appear on the telephone bill?!? Surely surrounded by flashing red lights and a demand for you to remortgage your house to pay this months BT.

I think these auto installs are damned rude.

 

[Will]

Originally posted by Damini
There was a virus going about (not sure if this is the same one but sounds very similar) that says it is from admin, and hijacks the domain name so it would appear to be admin@barrysworld.com or whatever, and that virus says that the e-mail address is about to expire, and you need to click on this html file to auto renew, and the virus was embedded in the htm file. Or something similar. I have childbrain when it comes to computers, so I might have twisted this infomation about.

I read the BBC website too much

Well remembered...thats exactly what that virus does.

 

[Scooba Da Bass]

Originally posted by Damini
I think these auto installs are damned rude.

Install Linux*, problem solved


*Phoenix

 

[kameleon]

nearly as bada as the lovsan worm thats just exploded on to the interweb