Tag Archives: e-mail

Computer zombies with a viral load in e-mails

25 Jun 2004 – 8:30 am

Well, I’m still getting zombiefied emails from France that have attachments with them. I guess it looks like that guy who emailed me last year got his computer hijacked recently. When he emailed me last year his email client must have saved me in his address book (A feature which can be turned off). Once [...]

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Rampant email viruses

17 Jun 2004 – 9:01 pm

There has been a strangely increasing amount of spam with virus attachments sent to my email. I’ve gotten more of these emails within the last few days than I’ve ever got before. 2 additional yesterday and 2 more just today. They didn’t effect or infect me.
This time attachments with file the names:

Manufacture.zlv
Alive_condom.com
Counter_strike.vbs
bateaqxiqy.jpeg
Message.zip

The last two were [...]

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What the…? Spoofing and phishing.

15 Jun 2004 – 4:40 pm

I got a few funny emails recently. Too funny for words and an obvious attempt at forging, spoofing and phishing! Here’s one:

Hello user of Eklectik.com e-mail server,
Your e-mail account has been temporary disabled because of unauthorized access.
For more information see the attached file.
Kind regards,
  The Eklectik.com team        http://www.eklectik.com
Ha! The Eklectik.com team?! Gee, what a minute, [...]

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