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Old 19-08-08, 19:02   #1
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No not one of those silly ones this one is actually real. You get an email allegedly from UPS telling you the package you posted needs to be collected as the address you sent it to is not known. There is a receipt attached as an attachment. If you open it it does really nasty things to your computer. Trust me this is true don't ask how I know needless to say I am £150 lighter to get it sorted. So folks watchout for it. The IT bod who sorted things out for us says it is a particularly nasty one and is still doing the rounds.

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No not one of those silly ones this one is actually real. You get an email allegedly from UPS telling you the package you posted needs to be collected as the address you sent it to is not known. There is a receipt attached as an attachment. If you open it it does really nasty things to your computer. Trust me this is true don't ask how I know needless to say I am £150 lighter to get it sorted. So folks watchout for it. The IT bod who sorted things out for us says it is a particularly nasty one and is still doing the rounds.
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No not one of those silly ones this one is actually real. You get an email allegedly from UPS telling you the package you posted needs to be collected as the address you sent it to is not known. There is a receipt attached as an attachment. If you open it it does really nasty things to your computer. Trust me this is true don't ask how I know needless to say I am £150 lighter to get it sorted. So folks watchout for it. The IT bod who sorted things out for us says it is a particularly nasty one and is still doing the rounds.
Had it last week in my yahoo, lucky i did not open it. why do people bother?

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I am £150 lighter to get it sorted.
For removing a virus!
It's an excecutable and quite obvious, if you click on it then basic antivirus software would pick up it. There's nothing astounding about it apart from a clever script.
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I had this at work recently too. I'd read about it somewhere beforehand so didnt open it. Told the resident IT guy who was adament that it couldnt be a virus as it absolutely wouldnt be able to breach our AV software, F Secure iirc

the email remains in my deleted box
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No excuse for getting caught by that one. Who on earth opens an executable from an unverified e-mail address? What's more, an executable that's caught by, well, most antivirus software.

Sorry you had to spend £150 to get rid of it. That's a high price to pay for someone else's greed
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It also comes in the guise of American Airlines booking problems email and others. The key is the attachment is a zip file although the name of it changes from just numbers to referrence type titles.
No doubt others will use fake big company email addy's to try to get it through. I contacted Yahoo as it got past their email filter but no response from them yet.

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I had this and still do if you want it back , but i fancied testing my virus checker so opened it Kaspersky killed it straight away , nice to know its working

i used my crappy pc to open it

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I've had this loads of times, at my home email address which funnily enough also gets loads of spam since Mrs TC put the address up on a website to advertise her business

AVG Free has picked up the attachments as a virus in every case and quarantined them.

The other guise of this one is CNN news updates, which apparently caught quite a few people who actually do subscribe to these.

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i think those that put their trust in proprietry ant-virus programmes have never been attacked by a proper nasty one, i've had viruses that the combined might of kaspersky, avg, ca antivirus to name a few have not got rid of--re-formatted each and every time but hey surf the dirty sites and that's what happens!
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Been getting 6+ of these per day, Avast detects/deletes instantly.
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