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UPS email trojan - Warning |
dougproctor
Joined: Jan 07, 2004
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From: Gosport, UK
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If you get an email from UPS saying about a parcel that they hold and they want you to confirm the address, delete it. It contains a Zip attachment labelled invoice and if you click on it, it puts a trojan on your computer.
I mention it because both myself and the better half got one each today. This is a recent problem - days apparently.
Doug
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pmerryman
Joined: Jun 02, 2004
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From: Oldham,Uk
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Thanks for the heads up.
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gregface
Joined: Mar 05, 2004
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how do you know it puts on a trojan?
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dougproctor
Joined: Jan 07, 2004
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From: Gosport, UK
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Google "UPS email trojan" and up it comes:- http://www.esecurityplanet.com/alerts/article.php/3759416
http://www.pc1news.com/news/0[....]-fake-ups-e-mail-messages.html
http://www.scmagazineus.com/T[....]-delivery-note/article/112514/
Plenty of proof there, I think.
Doug
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gregface
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lol, so you didn't open it, good!
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dougproctor
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From: Gosport, UK
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No, better still, my wife never opened hers either! And she's a relative computer novice!
Doug |
Sammy_boy
Joined: Mar 31, 2004
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From: Staffordshire, United Kingdom
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A mate of mine got an email like this a couple of days ago, unfortunately he did click on the attachment! It put a trojan and a couple of other nasties on his PC, some of which he's still trying to get rid of!
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Krubach
Joined: Dec 05, 2002
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From: Sunny Portugal! :)
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Hackers are getting smarter every day...
Now they even send Trojans through UPS...
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dougproctor
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From: Gosport, UK
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Lots of people at my work have had one or more of these. One young lady had SIX!!!!! All deleted, thank goodness.
Doug
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Krubach
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I've been fiddling with "Virtumonde" malware for two days.
Finally i got rid of the little prick...
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paul101
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i got the e-mail and accidentally downloaded the attachment
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arien617
Joined: Feb 01, 2006
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On 2008-07-26 00:11:35, paul101 wrote:
i got the e-mail and accidentally downloaded the attachment
And now you'll proceed to tell us you were on Ubuntu and nothing happened...
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dougproctor
Joined: Jan 07, 2004
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From: Gosport, UK
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Still a lot of these floating about! More received at work yesterday, luckily quarantined by the systyem. 
Doug |
shelly58
Joined: Jun 19, 2004
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From: Nottingham UK
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well don't know if this is the same thing he's on about but a friend of mine in Denmark says it's been all over the Danish media about a computer vyrus that's going round the uk via websites and causing major problems
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Posted: 2008-07-23 21:35
