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Posted by Charlie Tame on November 6, 2005, 9:08 pm
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Yes that's right David, my first reaction was Phishing since I get hundreds
of them but the attachment says it all.
Interesting that they should choose a similar line in social engineering
for a virus.
Charlie
>
> | Fitz is exactly correct. These emails are just scams to try and get you
> to
> | click on links or go to disreputable sites.
>
> Not really.
>
> It has all the aspects of the MyTob Internet worm.
>
> Such as the subject...
> "YOUR PASSWORD HAS BEEN SUCCESSFULLY UPDATED"
>
> W32/Mytob.cv@MM -- http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_134245.htm
>
> Then the following text snippet
> ...
> Thank you for using Verizon!
> The Verizon Support Team
>
> +++ Attachment: No Virus (Clean)
> +++ Verizon Antivirus - www.verizon.net
>
> For the; W32/Mytob.cv@MM it shows..
>
> +++ Attachment: No Virus (Clean)
> +++ (first part of recipient domain name) Antivirus - www.(Full domain
> name)
>
> And again the text in the body of the email...
>
> "Your e-mail account was used to send a huge amount of unsolicited spam
> messages during the recent week. If you could please take 5-10 minutes out
> of your online experience and confirm the attached document so you will
> not
> run into any future problems with the online service."
>
> This is not about phishing. This is about getting the person to run the
> payload and being
> infected with a SDBot worm variant.
>
> --
> Dave
> http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
> http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
>
>
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