anyone getting weird e-mail spam from friends?

NuTs62 · 01-23-2003, 11:03 PM

I've been receiving some weird e-mails, supposedly from various friends, some that I never knew had my e-mail address. All to my primary e-mail account. Each have two attachments, one a jpg, and the other an exe file usually around 150k in size or more. I haven't used any e-mail program like outlook, etc., that would let these badboys loose on my computer, i've been checking my mail through some online e-mail sites. Anyways, I've been suspecting its a virus..

Does anyone know if its happened before, where even online e-mail sites like AOL, Yahoo Mail, and Hotmail are sending out crap like this without the user knowing? I know theres viruses that take your addressbook from Outlook Express, and other programs, and spread the virus in that fashion, but does that effect Hotmail, Yahoo, and AOL too?

seqiro · 01-23-2003, 11:12 PM

Another trick of many of these virii is that they spoof the From: header with someone else from the victim's address book. So, it's possible that the e-mails you are receiving are from people who have both you and the apparent sender in their address books.

Sucks, doesn't it?

edit: what the heck just happened? my post started and ended correctly, but the middle was a bunch of random uppercase letters...!

edit #2: it did it again.

sbp · 01-23-2003, 11:26 PM

Definitely smells like a virus. Of course you don't need to be told to run exe files. Some of these viruses spoof where they come from.

NuTs62 · 01-23-2003, 11:47 PM

bout the spoofing, wouldn't my other friends be getting it too? i've been talking to 'em, and it seems like i've been the only one so far?

chadlnc · 01-24-2003, 07:40 AM

Sounds like the Klez worm. It sends mail from the infected persons computer with headers saying it is from someone else in their address book. So in reality you are getting it from only one or a small number of people but it looks likes a ton. I had a friend who had it on her computer and she knew everyone here at the office it really slowed down our email system. Klez sends itself with an attachment and a file from that person's computer, sometimes it can be sensitive data.

Tommy Boomfiger · 01-24-2003, 07:47 AM

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Originally posted by NuTs62
I've been receiving some weird e-mails, supposedly from various friends, some that I never knew had my e-mail address. All to my primary e-mail account. Each have two attachments, one a jpg, and the other an exe file usually around 150k in size or more. I haven't used any e-mail program like outlook, etc., that would let these badboys loose on my computer, i've been checking my mail through some online e-mail sites. Anyways, I've been suspecting its a virus..

Does anyone know if its happened before, where even online e-mail sites like AOL, Yahoo Mail, and Hotmail are sending out crap like this without the user knowing? I know theres viruses that take your addressbook from Outlook Express, and other programs, and spread the virus in that fashion, but does that effect Hotmail, Yahoo, and AOL too?

its riaa man, theyre infecting mp3s and going after you

~~Cantacuzene~~ · 01-24-2003, 07:50 AM

Sounds like klez or nimda.

kain9i6 · 01-24-2003, 11:40 AM

you can do what I do.. NEVER open an attachment from ANYONE EVAR!!!! i don't care if it's a nekkid picture of the girl i'm chatting with on AOL... if she wants to show it to me, she can put it on her website or something..

umm totally kidding about the aol chatting thing..

i just never open attachments..

and if i do.. it's at work on someone else's computer.. =0P

01-23-2003, 11:03 PM	#1
NuTs62 Vice Admiral Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: San Francisco Posts: 4,763	anyone getting weird e-mail spam from friends? I've been receiving some weird e-mails, supposedly from various friends, some that I never knew had my e-mail address. All to my primary e-mail account. Each have two attachments, one a jpg, and the other an exe file usually around 150k in size or more. I haven't used any e-mail program like outlook, etc., that would let these badboys loose on my computer, i've been checking my mail through some online e-mail sites. Anyways, I've been suspecting its a virus.. Does anyone know if its happened before, where even online e-mail sites like AOL, Yahoo Mail, and Hotmail are sending out crap like this without the user knowing? I know theres viruses that take your addressbook from Outlook Express, and other programs, and spread the virus in that fashion, but does that effect Hotmail, Yahoo, and AOL too?

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01-23-2003, 11:12 PM	#2
seqiro Commander Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Western MA Posts: 1,183	Another trick of many of these virii is that they spoof the From: header with someone else from the victim's address book. So, it's possible that the e-mails you are receiving are from people who have both you and the apparent sender in their address books. Sucks, doesn't it? edit: what the heck just happened? my post started and ended correctly, but the middle was a bunch of random uppercase letters...! edit #2: it did it again. __________________ Paul Beasi Last edited by seqiro : 01-23-2003 at 11:18 PM.

01-23-2003, 11:26 PM	#3
sbp Chief of Naval Operations Join Date: Dec 1999 Posts: 11,037	Definitely smells like a virus. Of course you don't need to be told to run exe files. Some of these viruses spoof where they come from.

01-23-2003, 11:47 PM	#4
NuTs62 Vice Admiral Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: San Francisco Posts: 4,763	bout the spoofing, wouldn't my other friends be getting it too? i've been talking to 'em, and it seems like i've been the only one so far?

01-24-2003, 07:40 AM	#5
chadlnc Lieutenant Commander Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: North Carolina Posts: 947	Sounds like the Klez worm. It sends mail from the infected persons computer with headers saying it is from someone else in their address book. So in reality you are getting it from only one or a small number of people but it looks likes a ton. I had a friend who had it on her computer and she knew everyone here at the office it really slowed down our email system. Klez sends itself with an attachment and a file from that person's computer, sometimes it can be sensitive data.

01-24-2003, 07:50 AM	#7
~~Cantacuzene~~ Banned Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Atlanta, Georgia, USA Posts: 8,700	Sounds like klez or nimda.

01-24-2003, 11:40 AM	#8
kain9i6 Lieutenant Commander Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Signal Hill, Ca Posts: 859	you can do what I do.. NEVER open an attachment from ANYONE EVAR!!!! i don't care if it's a nekkid picture of the girl i'm chatting with on AOL... if she wants to show it to me, she can put it on her website or something.. umm totally kidding about the aol chatting thing.. i just never open attachments.. and if i do.. it's at work on someone else's computer.. =0P

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