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Title: VIRUS ALERT: White Christmas
Post by: Odee on November 14, 2008, 08:51:40 AM
This is a NO BS post

With Christmas fast approaching,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

watch out for this...  be alert..

Please  read the following. It applies to FedEx as well,
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The  newest virus circulating is the UPS Delivery Failure. You will  receive an email from UPS Packet Service along with a packet number.  NOTE: The word packet is mis-spelled on this line. It will say that  they were un-able to deliver a package sent to you on such and such  a date. It then asks you to print out the invoice copy  attached. DON'T TRY  TO PRINT THIS. IT LAUNCHES THE VIRUS!  Pass this warning on to all your PC operators at work and home. This  virus has caused Millions of dollars in damage in the past few  days.

Snopes  confirms that it is real:
http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/ups.asp

 
Title: Re: VIRUS ALERT: White Christmas
Post by: edog1977 on November 14, 2008, 10:35:46 AM
I've seen that twice in the last week.  Not five minutes ago I got one from "Chase Bank" asking me to update my account info.  I found it odd because I don't bank with them.  I've also seen one from "FedEx."

Of course I didn't bother to click the links, so no problems for me.
Title: Re: VIRUS ALERT: White Christmas
Post by: Denholm on November 14, 2008, 10:54:43 AM
Sounds like the love bug.
Title: Re: VIRUS ALERT: White Christmas
Post by: Serenity on November 14, 2008, 02:50:54 PM
Seeing as ive had a couple packages that were days late in arriving, if I saw an e-mail like that I would have certainly fallen for it. Thanks for the heads-up!
Title: Re: VIRUS ALERT: White Christmas
Post by: Skuzzy on November 14, 2008, 02:53:29 PM
I get a couple of hundred of those a day.  From Visa, Mastercard, AMEX, Google Ads, Paypal, UPS, Fed-X, Chase, Merrill Lynch, and some other obscure ones.

Of course, there is not much left of them by the time they actually reach my mailbox on my computer.  Pretty much just the headers, and nothing else.
Title: Re: VIRUS ALERT: White Christmas
Post by: glock89 on November 14, 2008, 02:55:17 PM
I guess i wont order stuff then.  :(
Title: Re: VIRUS ALERT: White Christmas
Post by: drdeathx on November 14, 2008, 03:09:21 PM
Skuzzy,


Did you get the Victoria's Secret one yet?????


 :rofl
Title: Re: VIRUS ALERT: White Christmas
Post by: Skuzzy on November 14, 2008, 03:13:05 PM
I get over 3,500 SPAM messages a day.  I pretty much get it all.  Most of it is being sent from clients who have my email address in their address book and their computer has a virus/worm on it and they are not aware of it.
Title: Re: VIRUS ALERT: White Christmas
Post by: Serenity on November 14, 2008, 03:24:39 PM
I get over 3,500 SPAM messages a day.  I pretty much get it all.  Most of it is being sent from clients who have my email address in their address book and their computer has a virus/worm on it and they are not aware of it.

Holy ****! Ever since I started using AOL e-mail, I dont get more than 1 spam e-mail a day, and the one I do get always makes me laugh. (Its this weight-loss crap. The title is "This is why youre fat". I laugh because Im 6 ft tall and weigh about 150 lbs. Oh yeah, Im REAL fat...)
Title: Re: VIRUS ALERT: White Christmas
Post by: fudgums on November 14, 2008, 03:36:10 PM
Holy ****! Ever since I started using AOL e-mail, I dont get more than 1 spam e-mail a day, and the one I do get always makes me laugh. (Its this weight-loss crap. The title is "This is why youre fat". I laugh because Im 6 ft tall and weigh about 150 lbs. Oh yeah, Im REAL fat...)

its ok...it only matters what you look like on the inside
Title: Re: VIRUS ALERT: White Christmas
Post by: Skuzzy on November 14, 2008, 03:47:48 PM
Holy ****! Ever since I started using AOL e-mail, I dont get more than 1 spam e-mail a day, and the one I do get always makes me laugh. (Its this weight-loss crap. The title is "This is why youre fat". I laugh because Im 6 ft tall and weigh about 150 lbs. Oh yeah, Im REAL fat...)

You probably do not send out a hundred emails a day to different people either.  The more people you email to, the higher the SPAM count will get.

I never actually get the SPAM, but I do know about it.
Title: Re: VIRUS ALERT: White Christmas
Post by: Vulcan on November 14, 2008, 03:50:32 PM
Of course, there is not much left of them by the time they actually reach my mailbox on my computer.  Pretty much just the headers, and nothing else.

Wanna buy a decent spam box skuzzy?  ;)


Title: Re: VIRUS ALERT: White Christmas
Post by: Skuzzy on November 14, 2008, 03:58:04 PM
Already set in that department Vulcan.  Just because I know who many I get a day, does not mean I actually get them.  I want the headers so I can make sure we are not false triggering.  Cannot afford to miss any email in this business.
Title: Re: VIRUS ALERT: White Christmas
Post by: 1701E on November 14, 2008, 04:06:44 PM
"Who many"?  It's official the HTC staff needs a spelling and grammar class.  Everyone chip in, come on don't be shy. :D
Title: Re: VIRUS ALERT: White Christmas
Post by: Skuzzy on November 14, 2008, 04:33:47 PM
It's Friday afternoon,...what did you expect? :)
Title: Re: VIRUS ALERT: White Christmas
Post by: llama on November 14, 2008, 05:22:37 PM
I feel for you Skuzzy. I've had the same email address, published in print about a million times, since 1997 or so.

I run my own mail server, so it is the gatekeeper and statistician, that then feeds my other accounts and my smartphone. I don't know how I would manage without a mailserver.

The latest stats say it refused about 500 emails a day strait away based on their inability to maintain an open SMTP connection for 20 seconds before delivery. That filters out the basic bots.

Of the remaining messages that are coming from real mail servers (rather than bots), about 350 a day get filtered out as spam. About 30 are virus attachments that I filter away to my zoo for later testing. About 75 daily mailing list mails or advertisements from companies I want to hear from (newegg's mailings frequently have great deals, for example) have to get through, and then about 40 actual mails I need to work with every day, on average. From this block of 40, about 2 are spam messages that somehow got through. I get about 10 false positives a week I need to take out from the spam filters - normally newsletters.

Woof.

-Llama

Title: Re: VIRUS ALERT: White Christmas
Post by: CAP1 on November 15, 2008, 02:06:10 PM
Sounds like the love bug.

HERBIE? herbie is a virus???