WARNING - Someone isn't playing nicely!!!

**sundown** · Jun 20, 2001, 16:06

An hour ago, I got an email, which looked identical to the "new post" messages that this board sends out....unfortunately, it contained two little "presents" in an attachment. The attachment does NOT need to be opened for infection to occur, simply having preview pane on in MS Outlook will do it.

The viruses are identified by Norton as:

Backdoor.Trojan
W32.Badtrans.13312@mm

they appear to mail themselves to the last person you sent an email to, then they "phone home". You are then probed by two IP addresses, in my case:

131.247.203.238:2957 (Florida)
24.240.178.196:515,TCP (Unknown)

Fortunately, up to date virus software and a good firewall will prevent most of the inconvenience, but I'm sure no one here wants their machine to be a "zombie" for some one's DDS attack.

I'm fairly sure that the sender did this in response to the recent threads in the General Chat area, there has been a lot of US bashing in there lately, and I have been posting there.

Text of bogus email is below......

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'SitePoint Community Forums Mailer' wrote:
====
- Hello sundown,
-
- Hellbent has just replied to a thread you have subscribed to entitled - US to Europe: Bush only represents 49% of us. - in the General Chat forum of SitePoint Community Forums.
-
- Excerpt:
- Well Euro-peons think the US is a sky blackening conceited self absorbed human rights crushing monster lead by and idiot. What most Euro-peons fail to realize is that the US does not give one tiny inf
-
- This thread is located at:
- http:/ ...'

> Take a look to the attachment.
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So, be carefull out there!

**Smarky** · Jun 20, 2001, 16:40

Hmmm that really sucks I haven't gotten one of them but I will be checking my sitepoint forums email though my pop3 checker rather than outlook and deleting any messages that may be suspect. I don't have a virus checker right now

.

**luchazard** · Jun 20, 2001, 19:11

sundown where in Vermont do you live?

**OdIgO** · Jun 20, 2001, 21:19

That sucks dude, you got the trojan out right? Those things can be a *****! What kind of firewall are you using? Hardware/Software? And which brand?

**Hellbent** · Jun 20, 2001, 21:41

Do you have the email addie of the person who sent this?

**Saz** · Jun 20, 2001, 23:48

Sundown,

It might be an idea to send a PM to Wayne (W. Luke) with as much detail about this as possible. If somebody is using SitePoint to send out viruses, he needs to be aware of it.

Thanks.

**OdIgO** · Jun 20, 2001, 23:54

Sundown, check your pmz...

**Saz** · Jun 21, 2001, 00:00

Originally posted by Saz249
Sundown,

It might be an idea to send a PM to Wayne (W. Luke) with as much detail about this as possible. If somebody is using SitePoint to send out viruses, he needs to be aware of it.

Thanks.

Whoops! Just found this thread so I guess you already did.

**thewitt** · Jun 21, 2001, 05:28

I knew there was a good reason I did not take stand in that political thread...

-t

**sowen** · Jun 21, 2001, 05:49

George finaly found Sitepoint then

**Timothy** · Jun 21, 2001, 16:25

That is just terrible. Some people try anything to cause problems. I haven't received this message yet, but just think how many people actually did.

**NetEthusiast** · Jun 21, 2001, 21:41

i can't believe there are idiots sending viruses here

**kmar86** · Jun 22, 2001, 22:35

It's a good thing I haven't updated my e-mail address in my SitePoint profile!

I've switched from AOL Mail to Hotmail, much better service.

**freakysid** · Jun 23, 2001, 01:24

Um, you will want to update your email address before the next member audit. This invlolves sending a message to all members and those whose emails bounce are purged from the system.

**heavy** · Jun 23, 2001, 11:30

That totally sucks.

Man, some of you guys made me angry enough to crack heads

but I would never mess up a man's computer!

Just too low.

**mjames** · Jun 23, 2001, 12:25

Originally posted by kmar86
I've switched from AOL Mail to Hotmail, much better service.

Personally, I think both are horrendous.

**micmar** · Jun 24, 2001, 05:12

Originally posted by mjames

Personally, I think both are horrendous.

- I agree mjames...

thanks for the heads up Sundown

**goober** · Jun 24, 2001, 16:20

sundown, thanks for the information. I guess we all need to be careful these days. It's a shame.

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