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Grandma_Sweet_Boy
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What Do You Think?
« on: Nov 23rd, 2005, 5:21pm » |
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I found this in my email when I got home today.
There was an attachment - no I didn't open it and no, I don't plan to respond. Just wondered what y'all think this is about? Thanks - Carol
Quote:Dear Sir/Madam,
we have logged your IP-address on more than 30 illegal Websites.
Important:
Please answer our questions!
The list of questions are attached.
Yours faithfully,
Steven Allison
++++ Central Intelligence Agency -CIA-
++++ Office of Public Affairs
++++ Washington, D.C. 20505
++++ phone: (703) 482-0623
++++ 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., US Eastern t |
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Re: What Do You Think?
« Reply #1 on: Nov 23rd, 2005, 5:25pm » |
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It was just on tv today don't open it its has a virus supposedly. The fbi and cia doesnt won't send those kinda of emails
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chewy
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Quit surfing the porn sites.
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Re: What Do You Think?
« Reply #3 on: Nov 23rd, 2005, 5:29pm » |
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DELETE IT>>>>NOW!!!!!
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It is up to YOU to educate yourself and then help your doctor plan your treatment. If you just sit down in front of your doctor and say "make me better" you are setting yourself up for a great deal of pain.
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Re: What Do You Think?
« Reply #5 on: Nov 23rd, 2005, 5:59pm » |
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These have been circulating around the school I go to, it's a scam.
Tim
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Grandma_Sweet_Boy
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Re: What Do You Think?
« Reply #6 on: Nov 23rd, 2005, 6:00pm » |
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Good grief, I can barely find this site much less anything else.
Glad to hear that I'm not the only one that got this.
Thanks folks and yes Jonny, it's now deleted!
Carol
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Re: What Do You Think?
« Reply #7 on: Nov 23rd, 2005, 6:18pm » |
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on Nov 23rd, 2005, 6:00pm, Grandma_Sweet_Boy wrote:
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It is up to YOU to educate yourself and then help your doctor plan your treatment. If you just sit down in front of your doctor and say "make me better" you are setting yourself up for a great deal of pain.
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Re: What Do You Think?
« Reply #8 on: Nov 23rd, 2005, 7:12pm » |
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Heh heh... Don would be in Abu Gharib for all those buttsecks sites he hits.
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Re: What Do You Think?
« Reply #9 on: Nov 23rd, 2005, 8:07pm » |
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My ISP warned me of all kinds of crap like this. It's junk.
Bashtards 
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Re: What Do You Think?
« Reply #10 on: Nov 24th, 2005, 1:22am » |
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I've gotten over a hundred of these so far in the last two days and they just keep coming. In the ones I get, the zip file contains an executable file called File-packed_dataInfo.exe.
This file contains the mass mailing worm W32.Sober.X@mm.
You can find information about the worm and a removal tool here:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sober.x@mm.h tml
Never open an attachment from someone you don't know or even from someone you do know without verifying they intentionally sent the attachment. In cases like with mass mailing worms, the worm bypasses your regular e-mail program and uses its own SMTP server to send copies of itself to everyone in an infected computer's address book. Because of this, a person may not even realize s/he is infected until someone tells them. Frequently, the file will look like it came from someone a person knows so the file is opened, the computer is infected and the cycle is continued.
In this day and age it is important to have a virus scanning program installed and frequently updated. A spyware program, such as adaware is also a good idea. And most importantly:
Never open an attachment from someone you don't know or even from someone you do know without verifying they intentionally sent the attachment.
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Re: What Do You Think?
« Reply #11 on: Nov 24th, 2005, 9:13pm » |
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That reminds me of the days when I switched to Linux. I was getting virus email attachments just like my wife does. I Started collecting them, but after a few months they stopped coming. How in the heck do the script kiddies know that I am immune to their viruses. Anyway my virus collection was a lost cause and I gave it up.
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Re: What Do You Think?
« Reply #12 on: Nov 25th, 2005, 2:15pm » |
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Just for the heck of it, and because I'm at work and bored, I did a reverse lookup of the phone number and got this
United States Government Central Intelligence Agency
street address not available
Vienna, VA 22027
(703) 482-0623
You're in big trouble Dear Sir/Madam! 
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Re: What Do You Think?
« Reply #13 on: Nov 25th, 2005, 3:05pm » |
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Oh well, wouldn't be the first time!
Bring 'em on! 
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