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Re: Warning - new trend of attempts to infect ISP users (possibly virus)
From: "Gregh" <chows () ozemail com au>
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 07:29:22 +1100
----- Original Message ----- From: "william(at)elan.net" <william () elan net> To: <nanog () merit edu> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 3:07 PM Subject: Warning - new trend of attempts to infect ISP users (possibly virus)
I have just seen emails (several different kinds) pretending to be sent from 3 of my isp domains to users of those domains warning users that their email account would be disabled and asking to open a .pif
attachment.
I know largest ISPs probably have expierenced this but I believe what I
Sorry to tell you but this has been around for some time. I was the target - not a victim - of three of these letters since last year. Naturally I didn't believe it and warned my ISP what was happening. They have, since, updated their web page to reflect this but unfortunately haven't done the right thing and email the users. Greg.
Current thread:
- Warning - new trend of attempts to infect ISP users (possibly virus) william(at)elan.net (Mar 02)
- Re: Warning - new trend of attempts to infect ISP users (possibly virus) Larry Rosenman (Mar 02)
- Re: Warning - new trend of attempts to infect ISP users (possibly virus) Stephen J. Wilcox (Mar 03)
- Re: Warning - new trend of attempts to infect ISP users (possibly virus) Joel Jaeggli (Mar 03)
- Re: Warning - new trend of attempts to infect ISP users (possibly virus) Stephen J. Wilcox (Mar 03)
- Re: Warning - new trend of attempts to infect ISP users (possibly virus) William Warren (Mar 03)
- Re: Warning - new trend of attempts to infect ISP users (possibly virus) Kevin Oberman (Mar 03)
- Bagle and other recent viruses (Was: warning - new trend of attempts to infect ISP users, possibly virus) william(at)elan.net (Mar 04)
- Re: Bagle and other recent viruses (Was: warning - new trend of attempts to infect ISP users, possibly virus) william(at)elan.net (Mar 04)
- Re: Warning - new trend of attempts to infect ISP users (possibly virus) Stephen J. Wilcox (Mar 03)
- Re: Warning - new trend of attempts to infect ISP users (possibly virus) Michael Painter (Mar 03)
- Re: Warning - new trend of attempts to infect ISP users (possibly virus) Larry Rosenman (Mar 02)