Virus Bomb

[ceagle]

Be very careful today, everyone. :/
I just received a boatload of viruses and who-knows-what-else to ALL of my unpublicized, barely used broadband accounts. Luckily I have full isolation of these, they can't launch and they can't be passed on or propogate, but there may be something sinister brewing out there in cracker-land this weekend... so please be careful :|

Turn off PREVIEW if you use Outlook Express or Netscape Messenger mail, and go to OFFLINE to read messages, even pulling out your connection cord to the internet while you look at if you won't be too inconvenienced. And don't click on anything suspicious.

*grumble grrrrr...*

Comments

[genecatlow.livejournal.com]

I got about 60+ emails, pretty much 95% spam and
clearly so. It took 5 minutes to get all my mail.
Some of it was probably the type of stuff you
were referring to. Tossed in the trash before it
could even get a chance to do harm. (But... all
of that got through even with the spam-blocker
enabled... org...)

[neocanis.livejournal.com]

Maybe... but that perfect mimic spam was my first one ever, and before that one, the spams were fairly easy to spotted... I hope that one is going to be the only one I get :-(

[filia-seal.livejournal.com]

John Dvorak a has very interesting editorial on this, here . It seems the virus writers are getting better at spoofing legitimate emails. Pretending to be email from system administrators with attached documentation or patches. Scary.

[neocanis.livejournal.com]

Thanks :-) It is very scary indeed. Especially about "the Big One" :-X