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hinch
28-07-2004, 13:39
If you recieve the following email please delete it immediatly it has nothing todo with me although i just recieved it im sure you can find the irony in it










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From: "Bounced mail" <MAILER-DAEMON@furious-angels.com>
To: hinch@furious-angels.com
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 11:18:17 +0100
Subject: Report

Dear user of furious-angels.com,

Your email account was used to send a huge amount of spam messages during this week.
We suspect that your computer was infected and now contains a hidden proxy server.

Please follow our instructions in order to keep your computer safe.

Virtually yours,
The furious-angels.com support team.

Viruz
28-07-2004, 13:43
haha, thats pretty cool. i blame KK!!!

or maybe crc, if they were smart enough.

Stigmata
28-07-2004, 17:09
this email format has been sent out in the millions to all admins of any site that exists.

we had this on all 4 company websites with the name altered to our company name.

what attachment did you get with yours?

hinch
28-07-2004, 17:19
hinch@furious-angels.com

.com obviously being the extension :) strangely handy how that works really

Pete
28-07-2004, 17:29
I got the same email for my site.

Stigmata
30-07-2004, 13:14
just got my 10th of he day forwarded from a different area of the company

Dear user mail@comp-name.co.uk,

Your account has been used to send a huge amount of unsolicited email messages during this week. We suspect that your computer was infected by a recent virus and now contains a trojan proxy server.

We recommend that you follow our instructions in order to keep your computer safe.

Sincerely yours,
The comp-name.co.uk team.

its pretty tasty really as when this arrived the first time the file made it through the system as sophos (AV comp) had not found this one, now it gets filtered out by mailmonitor.

Lexxuk
30-07-2004, 14:51
i didnt get any, my isp's anti-virus seems to have blocked it :p

mander
31-07-2004, 09:55
haahah i got that a while ago, i dont remember what i did though :/, what does it do?

Stigmata
01-08-2004, 13:00
haahah i got that a while ago, i dont remember what i did though :/, what does it do?

it contains an attachment in my case it was called "mail.com" in the attachment was the strain O of my doom (w32/mydoom-O) when i got this email mydoom-o had not been found by any of the AV companys, so the attachment came through, but since then it has always been blocked