Author Topic: Anybody else suddenly getting multiple virii laden emails (Read 1338 times)

214thCavalier · « **on:** July 16, 2004, 04:42:30 PM »

A day that appear to have an Aces High connection judging by some of the spoofed email addys ?

Hajo · « **Reply #1 on:** July 16, 2004, 06:25:37 PM »

Cavalear yes, I am. This started with great frequency a few weeks ago.

I'm getting EMails from senders whose EMail addys seem to be personal addys.

Fortunately for road runner they can separate them from normal Mail....but wastes my time looking at them ....have to treat them as files and open them....and I won't do that.

I wonder if somehow our Addys have been exposed to mass marketing?

Replicant · « **Reply #2 on:** July 16, 2004, 06:28:31 PM »

I started getting them over the last week.

One was from an ex-squaddie whose address was still in my Address book.

One was from an ex-squaddie that wasn't in my address book.

One was from h#######@beta.hitechcreations.com

One was from ahspecialevent-subscribe@topica.com

All others from people I don't know.

Fariz · « **Reply #3 on:** July 16, 2004, 06:48:10 PM »

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Originally posted by Hajo
I'm getting EMails from senders whose EMail addys seem to be personal addys.

Spammers and viruses forge the "From:" field of emails.

I get around 20-30 virused emails every day.

214thCavalier · « **Reply #4 on:** July 16, 2004, 06:57:29 PM »

Yes we know they forge them Fariz but the point is somewhere somebody connected with Aces High has been infected and the email addys from their contacts list is being used by the virus.

Estes · « **Reply #5 on:** July 16, 2004, 07:33:57 PM »

It's MetaVoss!

Hammy · « **Reply #6 on:** July 16, 2004, 07:36:58 PM »

Very Original Estes

Estes · « **Reply #7 on:** July 16, 2004, 07:41:12 PM »

Yes, "SUCKERS" is very clever as well.

airbumba · « **Reply #8 on:** July 16, 2004, 08:31:19 PM »

ya gotta hope one of the scenario co's don't get infected, with all the AH addys they have stored.

Roscoroo · « **Reply #9 on:** July 16, 2004, 08:43:38 PM »

Mines clean , plus i dont get or send attachments, my AV program sends them all to hell.

jay1988 · « **Reply #10 on:** July 17, 2004, 01:57:03 AM »

That's not good, if someone did hack into HTC mabe some of your cc numbers can get in there hands.

BigR · « **Reply #11 on:** July 17, 2004, 03:20:38 AM »

I think you can be pretty sure that HTCs servers didn’t get hacked. Was probably just someone with a bunch of friends on AH who got a virus, and that virus is using his email list to propagate itself.

JB73 · « **Reply #12 on:** July 17, 2004, 03:23:14 AM »

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Originally posted by jay1988
That's not good, if someone did hack into HTC mabe some of your cc numbers can get in there hands.

ummm NOT

didnt happen or ther woudl be TONS of posts about this.

as it stands, sounds like someone got a virus, and they were "old school" AH

meaning, they had tons of AH contacts in their address book.

i have not recieved anything yet... and i know none of these posters have my email saved.

jay1988 · « **Reply #13 on:** July 17, 2004, 03:24:39 AM »

Flossy · « **Reply #14 on:** July 17, 2004, 03:26:43 AM »

No, Jay, I don't think anyone has hacked into HTC so don't worry about that! These types of emails have been going on for some time now and it only needs one person who has other players in their address book for it to spread. I probably receive quite a few everyday, but because my spam problem is so great (over 100 spam messages a day) all my email is filtered through Spamcop, so I rarely receive them. Don't worry, I am sure HTC's security is top-notch!