Somebody out there doesn't like me

[tfm]

It may sound silly, but five minutes after the auction closed for the chess set, someone sent me a virus. Am I that unpopular? I've never had that happen before.
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[scribe]

Probably random. Unless they sent it via email (and even so), I doubt it was personal.

How did you know it was a virus?

[tfm]

That's what Symantec said. It was sent from someone with an adelphia address to my address specifically.
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[scribe]

A lot of those things bounce off of slave machines. I doubt anyone specifically was up to anything. Did you block it?

[tfm]

Yes. I'm not going to worry about it unless it happens again.
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[TheShield]

As they are easier to detect, virus are now not as widely spread as spam mails, but they still exist. You shouldn't be too concerned from a personal point of view, most probably someone who has your adress in his contact list has been infected. I still receive maybe one or two virus a month, usually sent (unwillingly, of course) by ebayers.

[tfm]

News. I just got a warning from Symantec about a trojan. The email I told you about was one of these.

What they said:

In order to ensure you are informed of the latest online threats, we wanted to alert you that Symantec Security Response raised the risk level of Trojan.Peacomm from a category 2 out of 5, to a category 3 threat, due to the speed and volume in which it is being aggressively spammed across the Internet. The Trojan, which was first spotted January 17, 2007 has been raised to a higher category following a sustained increase in new versions of the attack which appeared over the weekend as the malware author responded to improvements in protection made by security companies by adjusting his tactics.
Trojan.Peacomm is one of a number of spamming Trojan horse programs Symantec has seen lately that appear to originate from Russia and are clearly aimed at making money for the author by pumping up penny stocks. The victim is enticed through social engineering techniques to open an attachment, which typically appears to be a video clip on a recent, newsworthy event.

The trojan horse arrives as an attachment to an email purporting to contain a video of one of several different recent news stories. The email itself will have no message body, but will have one of several subject lines such as "A killer at 11, he's free at 21 and kill again!," "Fidel Castro Dead," "Re: Your Text." For a complete list of subject lines, please click here.

Trojan.Peacomm reportedly arrives as an attachment to a spammed email with the following characteristics:

Subject:
One of the following:


A killer at 11, he's free at 21 and kill again!
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has kicked German Chancellor Angela Merkel
British Muslims Genocide
Naked teens attack home director.
230 dead as storm batters Europe.
Re: Your text
Radical Muslim drinking enemies's blood.
Chinese missile shot down Russian satellite
Chinese missile shot down Russian aircraft
Chinese missile shot down USA aircraft
Chinese missile shot down USA satellite
Russian missile shot down USA aircraft
Russian missile shot down USA satellite
Russian missile shot down Chinese aircraft
Russian missile shot down Chinese satellite
Saddam Hussein safe and sound!
Saddam Hussein alive!
Venezuelan leader: "Let's the War beginning".
Fidel Castro dead.

Attachment:
One of the following:


FullVideo.exe
Full Story.exe
Video.exe
Read More.exe
FullClip.exe
GreetingPostcard.exe
MoreHere.exe
FlashPostcard.exe
GreetingCard.exe
ClickHere.exe
ReadMore.exe
FlashPostcard.exe
FullNews.exe


My subject title was: Love is in the Air (which isn't there) and flashpostcard.exe (which was there).


Boy do I feel better. I don't need any 'special' fans.
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