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.

Originally Posted by maccecht

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.

UPS Spam: Trojan Courier of Choice

Originally Posted by maccecht

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?

Originally Posted by maccecht

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.

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

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

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

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!

Been getting 6+ of these per day, Avast detects/deletes instantly.