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Skeletor
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Posted: 27th Oct 2004 08:48 Edited at: 27th Oct 2004 08:49
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Anyone get one of these with no message and a attached file? I opened the email thinkin he had some bogus question (I saw a noob will that name around here) but all there was, was a file.


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Lynx
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Posted: 27th Oct 2004 08:51
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Check the headers.

I've been getting a lot of spam from PX (programmer extreme) with an 198kb file attatchment each email.

If the headers are the same, we can both report his ISP regarding him abusing us with his virus spam attatchements .

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Mx5 kris
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Posted: 27th Oct 2004 09:44
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What was the email? I recieved one that sounds almost like that....

Ummm....is db good....
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Ian T
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Posted: 27th Oct 2004 10:00
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mx5 kris, don't push it, follow ?


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John H
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Posted: 27th Oct 2004 10:40
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Thats a virus, it manipulates peoples email (from what I can tell) If someone is infected with the virus, it will go thru the computer and find email address's and spam from that computer with the virus, infecting others.

That virus was going around a while back, but instead it was telling people to delete a vital file on the computer

Its really not them sending the email (if this is the correct circumstance) it is actually a virus manipulating the persons email address


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Lynx
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Posted: 27th Oct 2004 12:38
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^^^

Die hard proof there.

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zircher
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Posted: 27th Oct 2004 12:40
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Which usually means that it is a mutual friend that has the bug...

Given that they're all kids, I'm sure they'll spread it around for a while before they get a clue.
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Jimmy
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Posted: 27th Oct 2004 12:40
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Yeah he has a virus and has you added to his contact list.


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DeepBlue
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Posted: 27th Oct 2004 17:23
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I've now had 3 of these mails now with a .scr embedded in a .zip file as an attachment.

No fear of getting a virus as my mail app has no idea what a .scr is but its getting damn annoying.

The 1st mail came from somewhere in Sweden but I deleted it before looking fully at the headers. The last two just came through a German mail server mxng17.kundenserver.de

It looks like it is someone scanning the forums again as it is being sent to my deepblue address that I use nowhere else. Bah I hate this rubbish.

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Manticore Night
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Posted: 28th Oct 2004 00:50 Edited at: 28th Oct 2004 00:51
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I got one like that too, he got mad at me for...um.... I forgot exactly, but it was still funny.

GO JERICO! block that b@st@rd!

<edit> those are from Programmer Xtreme, an his sh!tty programmers united hosting</edit>

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Ian T
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Posted: 28th Oct 2004 01:04
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Remember that this makes no exception to the general policy that if you get suspicious emails or emails from anyone you don't know and trust, don't open them!


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TKF15H
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Posted: 28th Oct 2004 02:34
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I got an e-mail with "Hello" in the subject from ra____@thegamecreators.com (part blanked out for random reason, just thought it'd be better that way.), containing nothing but a zip.
In it was a .scr file, which my virus scanner detects as some worm. Somebody needs to buy a scanner.

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Kentaree
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Posted: 28th Oct 2004 02:38
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It's very easy to disguise an e-mail address, so even if it is from whatever@thegamecreators.com or whatever@programmersunited.com, it doesn't mean they're necessarily from that person. I'd advise you to get a mail client such as thunderbird which can filter out spam, these mails are all very similar, so should be easy to filter.

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TKF15H
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Posted: 28th Oct 2004 02:43
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I know how easy it is to fake an e-mail address, I just didn't think PX would.
I once sent my brother an e-mail supposedly from "Barney@hollywood.com" with the theme song ("I love you, you love me...").

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Ian T
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Posted: 28th Oct 2004 03:23
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I have absolutely no doubt PX would do that if he knew how (which is doubtful). He's got a history of spamming and trolling and poorly organized attempts to send viruses to people who he dislikes .


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ionstream
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Posted: 28th Oct 2004 03:39
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"*.scr" are screensaver files. There just like executables.

This image is not visible to idiots.

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teh game wiz
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Posted: 28th Oct 2004 23:27 Edited at: 28th Oct 2004 23:29
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i've just got one from '***********1987@yahoo.com' had nothing cept a zip called 'details.zip'.
the hotmail virus scanner didnt pick anything up, however i checked it with AVG and it found a worm :^)
must be a big virus going around witch scanners like McAfee arnt detecting

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Manticore Night
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McAfee couldn't figure out if a file named VIRUS.exe was jpg, or a horrible virus.

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Skeletor
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Posted: 29th Oct 2004 00:54
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@ game wiz

That sounds like my contact email (Skeletorsks1987@yahoo.com)... now how could someone send an email from my email adress.


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David T
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Posted: 29th Oct 2004 01:32
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Quote: "@ game wiz

That sounds like my contact email (Skeletorsks1987@yahoo.com)... now how could someone send an email from my email adress."


They probably didn't, just change the headers so it looks like it came from you.

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teh game wiz
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it was your email.. now that i looked. i think you most of opened the virus and somehow it got into your email account

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Pricey
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Posted: 29th Oct 2004 04:01
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I used to get tonnes of spam on my Yahoo Account but I've moved all of my personal mail over to hotmail now

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Posted: 29th Oct 2004 04:18
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Swapped one spam repository for another

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