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(Message started by: Grandma_Sweet_Boy on Nov 23^rd, 2005, 5:21pm)

Title: What Do You Think?
Post by Grandma_Sweet_Boy on Nov 23^rd, 2005, 5:21pm

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

Title: Re: What Do You Think?
Post by boonie on Nov 23^rd, 2005, 5:25pm

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

boonie

Title: Re: What Do You Think?
Post by chewy on Nov 23^rd, 2005, 5:27pm

Quit surfing the porn sites.

Title: Re: What Do You Think?
Post by Jonny on Nov 23^rd, 2005, 5:29pm

DELETE IT>>>>NOW!!!!!

Title: Re: What Do You Think?
Post by vig on Nov 23^rd, 2005, 5:31pm

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/11/22/email.scam.ap/index.html

I got one too.

me?
look at illegal sites?
:)

Title: Re: What Do You Think?
Post by Tim_Z on Nov 23^rd, 2005, 5:59pm

These have been circulating around the school I go to, it's a scam.

Tim

Title: Re: What Do You Think?
Post by Grandma_Sweet_Boy on Nov 23^rd, 2005, 6:00pm

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

Title: Re: What Do You Think?
Post by Jonny on Nov 23^rd, 2005, 6:18pm

on 11/23/05 at 18:00:44, Grandma_Sweet_Boy wrote:

yes Jonny, it's now deleted!

:-*

Title: Re: What Do You Think?
Post by Rock_Lobster on Nov 23^rd, 2005, 7:12pm

Heh heh... Don would be in Abu Gharib for all those buttsecks sites he hits.

Title: Re: What Do You Think?
Post by Charlie on Nov 23^rd, 2005, 8:07pm

My ISP warned me of all kinds of crap like this. It's junk.

Bashtards http://www.netsync.net/users/charlies/gifs/slapemoticon2

Charlie

Title: Re: What Do You Think?
Post by Gator on Nov 24^th, 2005, 1:22am

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.html

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.

Title: Re: What Do You Think?
Post by Opus on Nov 24^th, 2005, 9:13pm

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.

Opus/Paul

Title: Re: What Do You Think?
Post by BobG on Nov 25^th, 2005, 2:15pm

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! :o

Title: Re: What Do You Think?
Post by Grandma_Sweet_Boy on Nov 25^th, 2005, 3:05pm

Quote:

You're in big trouble Dear Sir/Madam!

Oh well, wouldn't be the first time!

Bring 'em on! ;;D