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Larry M. -> Dangerous SPAM Scams? (7/16/2007 18:23:23)

I've been inundated with two new types of SPAM messages directed to my business email address recently - 100 or more daily in addition to all the other crap I get [:@]

(1) "You've received a greeting ecard from a School Friend" (Classmate) (Worshipper) (Family Member) (Neighbor) (Relative) (Pet Lover), etc.

(2) messages with PDF attachments.

Naturally I don't open these messages but I wonder if, in the instance of (1) greeting cards, will the site if called up have a Trojan or other virus? These sites are, variously, Postcards.com, Mypostcards.com, Netfuncards.com, etc. As to the SPAM messages with (2) attachments, I've read before that no one has found a way to imbed a virus in the PDF format. Has this changed?

Very frustrating - I know I'm not alone but it doesn't make it better since I have to slog through so much chaff to find wheat that I'm afraid I might miss the wheat at some point [:(]

Comments anyone?



BobbyDouglas -> RE: Dangerous SPAM Scams? (7/16/2007 18:57:36)

You should contact the company (host) that handles your e-mail. They should be able to find a similar signature between all these messages, and then block them. This is something your host would need to do.

A lot of times, the PDF attachments are simply image based advertising. In the past couple months there has been a huge issue with spammers getting around anti-spam stuff by sending an image that contains the spam message (as opposed to text in the e-mail). Some hosts have been able to correct their anti-spam stuff for the image only based spam, so these spammers now send it as a PDF. Fewer hosts actually include the PDF scans in their anti-spam tests.



Larry M. -> RE: Dangerous SPAM Scams? (7/16/2007 19:24:29)

quote:

You should contact the company (host) that handles your e-mail


Bobby,

My host is our host. I'll let Tom know.

Thanks!

p.s. I'm aware my avatar is not displaying. Can't get a new one to "take" - 404. Have emailed Spooky.



BobbyDouglas -> RE: Dangerous SPAM Scams? (7/16/2007 19:39:41)

Your avatar works for me [:)]



Nicole -> RE: Dangerous SPAM Scams? (7/16/2007 21:02:41)


quote:

ORIGINAL: BobbyDouglas

Your avatar works for me [:)]


Not for me.



d a v e -> RE: Dangerous SPAM Scams? (7/17/2007 1:24:12)

nor me ;)



caz -> RE: Dangerous SPAM Scams? (7/17/2007 12:21:56)

Nor me either, so that's Europe and OZ...something to do with Homeland Security maybe? [;)]



Donkey -> RE: Dangerous SPAM Scams? (7/17/2007 19:09:41)

I can see it at work, but not at home.



treetopsranch -> RE: Dangerous SPAM Scams? (7/17/2007 20:16:03)

Very odd. It shows up in NS 8.1 but not in 9.0



TJolly -> RE: Dangerous SPAM Scams? (7/18/2007 13:23:07)

Hi Larry

Take a look here.



Larry M. -> RE: Dangerous SPAM Scams? (7/18/2007 16:36:25)

Brian,

Much as I suspected [:'(]

Thanks [:)]

Excerpt from http://www.auscert.org.au/render.html?it=7813

quote:

AusCERT has observed very large amounts of email purporting to be greeting cards and security updates containing links to malware. This malware is a variant of what is widely known as the "Storm worm", but also known as Tibs or Peacomm





Larry M. -> RE: Dangerous SPAM Scams? (7/18/2007 16:40:08)

quote:

I'm aware my avatar is not displaying. Can't get a new one to "take" - 404. Have emailed Spooky


Spooky got my Avatar back up. He said he saw the 404 error and attributed it to a "webby thing".

Thanks Spooky!




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