John Hesch

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04-19-07

Virus Alert

John under Blog, Rants

I have been receiving some strange emails lately. The latest one goes like so

Do not reply to this message

Dear Customer,

Our robot has fixed an abnormal activity from your IP address on sending e-mails.
Probably it is connected with the last epidemic of a worm which does not have patches at the moment.
We recommend you to install a firewall module and it will stop e-mail sending. Otherwise your account will be blocked until you do not eliminate
malfunction.

Customer support center robot

A zipped file is attached. I didn’t unzip the file but this has all the characteristics of an email virus. As always, never open a file attachment from someone you don’t know.

  1. scott Said,

    I also recived this e-mail message.

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