I Cant believe...

[Viki]

....some people got nothing better to do than crawl
bulletin boards looking for email address to send a virus
too. I only opened this email account so that I can post
here earlier today and havent used it before or will use
it in future. Well to the dumb loner who sent the glib
virus to me as a pacth o solve my problem... hahahahaha
it didnt work. No-one is as dumb as you to open an
update from microsoft in an email.

This message will probably get deleted by an admin but I
hope the sender reads it first.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

...some people got nothing better to do than crawl
bulletin boards looking for email address to send a virus
too. I only opened this email account so that I can post
here earlier today and haven't used it before or will use
it in future. Well to the dumb loner who sent the glib
virus to me as a patch to solve my problem... hahahahaha
it didn't work. No-one is as dumb as you to open an
update from Microsoft in an email.

This message will probably get deleted by an admin but I
hope the sender reads it first.

New to the Internet,eh?

Newsgroups are crawled by applications that grab email addresses and add
them to lists that are then sold or the more nefarious are just used to
cause havoc (case in point - your virus.)

If you post here using an email address that goes anywhere, it will get spam
within hours... and it will continue to do so merely because you have now
posted on a public forum where such applications (as the bot in question)
roam freely.

Congratulations on learning what has been happening for years - the
shameless collection of email addresses from publicly available sources for
all types of exploitation.

Now you know why it is suggested you *munge* your email address.

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Viki;
You most likely missed the note about using a fake address when
posting here.
It is spam bots and viruses and not people that troll newsgroups for
addresses.

See this link:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/munad.htm

 

[Viki]

Hi Jupiter and Shenan

Yeah your right I didnt read it first and I thought I
was being clever in setting up an email account today ,
rather than using my real one, that I will delete
tomorrow, just so that I could post here. Goes to show
bots have virii too then hehehehehehe

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

It's been well known for years now that posting/publishing a real
email address to _any_ newsgroup, as you have done, or web site is an
open initiation to be spammed. For years now, spammers have been
using automated tools to harvest email addresses from the Internet and
Usenet. What I don't understand is why you're just now noticing the
phenomenon. Was this the first time you _ever_ posted to Usenet?

What you received is the output of a computer infected by one of
several widely publicized, wide-spread, mass emailing worms. The
virus' authors have deliberately spoofed the Microsoft information in
the hopes of garnering more victims. This sort of email has been very
common for at least the past 10 months. The most widely-known are:

W32.Swen.A_mm
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[email protected]

W32.Dumaru_mm
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[email protected]

W32.Gibe_mm
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[email protected]

Trojan.Xombe
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.xombe.html

Microsoft never has, does not currently, and very probably never
will email unsolicited security patches. At the most, if, and only
if, you subscribe to their security notification newsletter, they will
send you an email informing you that a new patch is available for
downloading.

Microsoft Policies on Software Distribution
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/?url=/technet/security/policy/swdist.asp

Information on Bogus Microsoft Security Bulletin Emails
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/news/patch_hoax.asp

How to Tell If a Microsoft Security-Related Message Is Genuine
http://www.microsoft.com/security/antivirus/authenticate_mail.asp

Remember, any and all legitimate patches and updates are readily
available at http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/. You should develop
the habit of checking this site at least once a month to keep your
computer up-to-date. (Notice that this is the true URL, rather than
the bogus one that may have been contained in the email you received.)
Any messages that point to any other source(s) or claim to have the
patch attached are bogus.

You're receiving these emails because your email address is in
the address book of someone infected with a worm, and/or because you
posted your real email address somewhere on-line, either in a forum
accessible to the public and spambots, such as Usenet, or on an
untrustworthy web site that subsequently sold your address as part of
a mailing list. One thing you can do is notify _everyone_ with whom
you've ever corresponded via email that one or more of them may be
infected with a mass emailing worm, and should take the appropriate
steps. You can also ask your ISP to take steps to preclude their mail
server from passing on such emails. Many ISPs have such filtering
capabilities.


Bruce Chambers
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