View Full Version : A new computer virus
WB8MKV
08-11-2007, 07:19 PM
A computer geek in our local newspaper warns that a new dangerous wave of virus is coming your way by masquerading in the form of greeting cards - it will infect your hard drive and infect your address book as well. If you get a note saying you have an e-greeting card - never - never click it open.
Like many other internet fraud schmes the perpetrator uses social tatics to entice the victem, claimning the card is from a family member or friend.....
KC7UP
08-11-2007, 07:46 PM
Someone tried to dump on of them on me however my virus checked spotted it before it was loaded.
Curt
K8ERV
08-11-2007, 09:06 PM
Quote[/b] (WB8MKV @ Aug. 11 2007,12:19)]claimning the card is from a family member or friend.....
I don't have any friends
Tom K8ERV Montrose Co.
I get legitimate cards from family occasionally, but I sure do delete the ones from "a classmate" I haven't had a "classmate" for something like 40 years ! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
N0KLT
08-11-2007, 09:11 PM
Quote[/b] (AG3Y @ Aug. 11 2007,15:08)]I get legitimate cards from family occasionally, but I sure do delete the ones from "a classmate" I haven't had a "classmate" for something like 40 years ! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
I know some people who were classmates back in the day, they just won't admit it publicly that they were classmates of mine. But then there were several I let anyone know about either. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
ve2nsm
08-11-2007, 10:59 PM
I have a good anti-virus.
People that still surf the web without antivirus and firewall, or with outdated virus definitions ought to be hang publicly.
They are the ones at fault for propagating these things, most of the time they will give you the excuse "I don't care, I have nothing important in my computer"
For my it's the same thing as somebody sleeping around without condom just because they don't care about THEM getting sick. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif
Linux..the ultimate condom. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
K8MHZ
08-12-2007, 02:23 AM
Didn't some lady die of a computer virus last week?
Quote[/b] (k8mhz @ Aug. 11 2007,19:23)]Didn't some lady die of a computer virus last week?
caught it from an unprotected hard drive
ve2nsm
08-12-2007, 03:05 AM
Quote[/b] (kq9j @ Aug. 11 2007,19:04)]Linux..the ultimate condom. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
Right, but only because it's unpopular. I suspect if linux was the John Doe/anybody/mom&dad OS instead of windows, it would be suffering from the same illnesses.
VO1GXG
08-12-2007, 03:18 AM
Good ole Mac http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
n6hcm
08-12-2007, 08:48 AM
i've easily received *thousands* of these since they started to appear a few weeks ago. i didn't know i had so many friends/colleagues/classmates/... who were still interested in me!
KA9VQF
08-12-2007, 01:42 PM
Quote[/b] (n6hcm @ Aug. 12 2007,02:48)]i've easily received *thousands* of these since they started to appear a few weeks ago. #i didn't know i had so many friends/colleagues/classmates/... who were still interested in me!
Kinda like al those winning lottery letters I seem to be getting from people in the UK for lotteries I never entered ‘eh.
W4INF
08-12-2007, 01:43 PM
Quote[/b] (VO1GXG @ Aug. 11 2007,20:18)]Good ole Mac http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
http://www.symantec.com/home_ho....av10mac (http://www.symantec.com/home_homeoffice/products/overview.jsp?pcid=ma&pvid=nav10mac)
If a Mac cant catch a virus, why do they sell an anti-virus for them?
Not being argumentative, just curious.
Quote[/b] (ve2nsm @ Aug. 11 2007,20:05)]Quote[/b] (kq9j @ Aug. 11 2007,19:04)]Linux..the ultimate condom. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
Right, but only because it's unpopular. I suspect if linux was the John Doe/anybody/mom&dad OS instead of windows, it would be suffering from the same illnesses.
There's more to it than that. I agree that the virus and malware writers like to target the more "mainstream" OS, but the role of the Linux box in this one would simply be the operator forwarding the e-mail. Even if this virus could infect a Linux machine, unless the operator were running as root it would not likely affect anything outside of his user account, not wipe out his hard drive. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
WA3WDR
08-12-2007, 09:03 PM
A woman I know who does non-technical work for some very secret agencies sent me an invitation to a dating service, and when I went to that site, it demanded a yahoo, hotmail, g-mail or msn user name and password. #I thought maybe it was asking for a new password for a new account, so I deliberately gave it a yahoo address and a different password, and it rejected that and demanded the correct password. #I reported that to the FBI, and later it turned out that she had actually sent that.
Not long after that, and before I learned that she had sent that invitation, I got a different invitation to go pick up some e-song, from the same person, and this time it wanted me to link back to a network of proxies! #There is no reason for that, except a phisher or such hiding its identity. #I checked that out before clicking on that link, which I didn't do. #I assumed that she had picked up a virus from surfing at a wireless node without a firewall, so I e-mailed her and told her that it was a bogus site. #I was composing another FBI report, and just then she called me and told me that she had sent both invitations.
I have to wonder who is really behind some of this stuff.
Quote[/b] (W4INF @ Aug. 12 2007,10:43)]Quote[/b] (VO1GXG @ Aug. 11 2007,20:18)]Good ole Mac http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
http://www.symantec.com/home_ho....av10mac (http://www.symantec.com/home_homeoffice/products/overview.jsp?pcid=ma&pvid=nav10mac)
If a Mac cant catch a virus, why do they sell an anti-virus for them?
Not being argumentative, just curious.
It's called "making a profit!" #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif # http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif # http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif
KL1ZB
08-19-2007, 02:49 AM
Quote[/b] (kq9j @ Aug. 10 2007,17:04)]Linux..the ultimate condom. # #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
That has broken, more then once. Linux has Rootkits, Trojans, Worms and Viruses. However unlike Microsoft products it takes more then a 11 year old with a VB book and an afternoon to write a virus for Linux or OSX.
n0jaa
08-19-2007, 03:09 AM
Quote[/b] (ve2nsm @ Aug. 11 2007,18:59)]I have a good anti-virus.
People that still surf the web without antivirus and firewall, or with outdated virus definitions ought to be hang publicly.
They are the ones at fault for propagating these things, most of the time they will give you the excuse "I don't care, I have nothing important in my computer"
For my it's the same thing as somebody sleeping around without condom just because they don't care about THEM getting sick. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif
Unfortunately, I know someone like that. She has sent me several emails that had virii or trojan horses attached to them. Fortunately, my anti-virus program intercepted them before I could open the email. I told her that unless and until she installs an anti-virus program on her computer, I will be blocking all email from her email address. She didn't, and I did.