slowday444 Posted July 4, 2007 Share Posted July 4, 2007 My oldest daughter opened her Boston College (she's a doctoral candidate) epostcard of some sort email with her sister's work notebook the other day and it was a trojan/worm (my doom, I guess). My younger daughter did have Norton and I guess it went crazy stopping it from sending out more infections. They called me in a panic at work! In some respects it was somewhat humorous their reaction, at first I thought they'd been in an accident or something. We still aren't 100% sure they stopped it. Anyway, watch out U.S. for 4th ecards today! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarq57 Posted July 4, 2007 Share Posted July 4, 2007 I've read something similar about (possibly) the same attack vector...the salient identifying feature being the words "a family member has sent you a..." Basically, don't open postcards/greeting cards if the "family member" isn't identified by name. Is that part of the form your daughter's e-card took, slowday? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slowday444 Posted July 4, 2007 Author Share Posted July 4, 2007 I've read something similar about (possibly) the same attack vector...the salient identifying feature being the words "a family member has sent you a..."Basically, don't open postcards/greeting cards if the "family member" isn't identified by name. Is that part of the form your daughter's e-card took, slowday? Sorry, not really sure! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyManchesta Posted July 4, 2007 Share Posted July 4, 2007 http://www.sophos.com/security/blog/2007/07/322.html If anyone does open it Id suggest running a full scan with Kaspersky's online scanner and also running a rootkit scanner such as GMER as it will likely attempt to install windev-*-*.sys which is a component of the Nuwar/Storm worm (*=random numbers and letters) http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q...*.sys&meta= Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CeeCee Posted July 8, 2007 Share Posted July 8, 2007 Just looked my Opera Web Mail and there was a new e-mail from greetingCard.Org, titled: You've received a postcard from a neighbour! There was a address link with IP 71.131.36.247. Of course i didn't clicked that link. I went to greetingcard.org and noticed this alert: http://www.greetingcard.org/crisis_center.html Beware! Path Copy TeraCopy Unlocker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fireryone Posted July 8, 2007 Share Posted July 8, 2007 I had one or so of these as well. Using an IP Address as instead of a web address, screamed "fake" to me, so I naturally ignored it. fireryone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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