Recently I've been getting an email, the subject is 'Hi', and the email is a random hotmail account...but if I try to respond, I get the mail back saying it doesn't exist...Anyways, all the message says is
Please read this text document it's very Important. And the attachment is a .3 mb zip file. Uh Huh. So.
I want to know where I can goto, a site or something, or a hotline I can call to report this and see about the email's being traced back to catch whoever is sending me this obvious virus or harmfull program...
And, I'm not quite sure how to get ahold of the zip without causing possible damage to my computer,...I can download it, not open it, and be safe right? SO as to send it to whoever the proper authorities are...
[EDIT] I haven't done anything yet, by the way. I have 3 of the same, identical email from 3 different addresses just sitting in my mailbox unread...I didn't wanna delete it right away cause if possible I want to turn it into the proper authorities.
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 May 21 2004, 9:02 am (Edited on May 21 2004, 10:56 am)
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May 21 2004, 9:11 am
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N1ghtW1ng
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yea i got the same thing, from like 4 different people
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Same here, people keep forwarding it to and from different people like a hot potato before it finally reaches me, I delete most of them, and only keep one at a time that I don't even bother to read.
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I get emails like this:
-------------------------------------------------------- To: [email protected] Subject: Email account utilization warning. From: [email protected] Dear user of Digitalmouse.org, Your e-mail account will be disabled because of improper using in next three days, if you are still wishing to use it, please, resign your account information. Pay attention on attached file. Archive password: (image link to the .bmp metioned below) Cheers, The Digitalmouse.org team http://www.digitalmouse.org xiopgbgjly.bmp pub_document.rar --------------------------------------------------------- Funny thing is that 1) there is no administration email address (I only have info@ and [email protected] emails, and i created those myself), and 2) there ain't much of a "team" at the moment. This made me chuckle. Also, looking at the email's header data, I found: Return-Path: <[email protected]> X-Original-To: [email protected] Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lx7.ihr-host.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7B0D9F7F for <[email protected]>; Thu, 13 May 2004 21:54:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: from lx7.ihr-host.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (lx7 [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 21794-04 for <[email protected]>; Thu, 13 May 2004 21:54:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: from sleeper.net (CPE-141-168-30-75.nsw.bigpond.net.au [141.168.30.75]) by lx7.ihr-host.de (Postfix) with SMTP id 040609F72 for <[email protected]>; Thu, 13 May 2004 21:54:15 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 05:57:30 +1000 To: [email protected] Subject: Email account utilization warning. From: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--------tirgxngmsmmknpbidmye" X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at lx7.ihr-host.de X-UIDL: fZk!!>V3!!^cE"!:)V"! --------------------------------------------------------- and to think these kids could be making money instead of annoying people! | |
Its probably a virus. As a mail server administrator, I'm seeing a ton of these zip files every day.
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I know...But is there someone like an online protection agency or like Symmantic corporation or something who I should send it too, for them to make sure it can be stopped or whateve? Or Should i just delete them and not worry about it?
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Lets put it this way, if everyone that recieveed mails like these forwarded them to people like symmantic then they would be denied of service (It would be a DoS attack.) there would be that many emails. Just learn to filter them or ignore them.
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Wow, I get about 18 (no joke) a day, but they're blocked by a special email quaranteen service I have... I've tried to talk to my ISP about it, but they say there's nothing they can do...
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I don't see why my explanation needed to be deleted. Oh well, have it your way.
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XxXSonGokouXxX wrote:
And, also one saying that I sent one out. Weird stuff. Many mass-mailing viruses forge the sender address. This is doubtless one of them. What's happened is that somebody who has been infected with the virus has your email address somewhere on their computer (some viruses just check the address book, others the whole hard drive). The virus has sent itself to someone else on their address book, making it look like it was from you. An automatic virus-checker program has sent the email "back" to where it thinks it came from (you), in a misguided attempt to inform the infected person that they're infected. Server admins hate those stupid virus-checker emails, because some of them get hundreds upon hundreds of the things every day through no fault of their own. =P | |