Guest Jeffery Jones Posted November 16, 2008 Posted November 16, 2008 Alright, I have Received some e-mails from all family members!! About this HOAX virus coming around from hallmark ( FAKE!) Wondering if anyone had heard of this, I did some research and found that that one e-mail was a hoax, but anyone else found different? ) Thanks in Advance! Quote
Guest Malke Posted November 16, 2008 Posted November 16, 2008 Jeffery Jones wrote: <span style="color:blue"> > Alright, > > I have Received some e-mails from all family members!! About this HOAX > virus coming around from hallmark ( FAKE!) > > Wondering if anyone had heard of this, I did some research and found that > that one e-mail was a hoax, but anyone else found different? ) > </span> Yes, it is a hoax. Here are some links where you can research this sort of thing. Pass them onto your family so they stop forwarding hoaxes. Scam & Hoax-Fighting Sites: http://www.antiphishing.org/ http://www.hoax-slayer.com/ http://www.quatloos.com/ http://www.scambusters.com/ http://www.scamorama.com/ http://www.symantec.com/business/security_...isks/hoaxes.jsp Malke -- MS-MVP Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic! FAQ - http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ Quote
Guest Oòsóom Posted November 16, 2008 Posted November 16, 2008 On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:18:49 -0500, "Jeffery Jones" <nukem_54@hotmail.com> wrote: I am personally aware of at least 20 machines infected with it. MalwareBites appears to take care of it. I had 4 emails yesterday using AVG. Tried a scan in the early morning and nothing. Did a update and AVG then found it. It appears to be a new version of an old trick. The email has an attachment named Postcard.zip Here are a couple links for details on it. http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/0cd97b3...f30ca1aa36a6a2d http://www.threatexpert.com/report.aspx?md...f71769d3832f107 <span style="color:blue"> >Alright, > >I have Received some e-mails from all family members!! About this HOAX >virus coming around from hallmark ( FAKE!) > >Wondering if anyone had heard of this, I did some research and found that >that one e-mail was a hoax, but anyone else found different? ) > > >Thanks in Advance! </span> ------- For every idiot proofed system devised, a new and improved idiot will arise to over come it. Quote
Guest FromTheRafters Posted November 16, 2008 Posted November 16, 2008 "Oòsóom" <oòsóom@notanemailaddress.com> wrote in message news:g6e0i49k02474v21bspgqlbuk7eba7ul69@4ax.com...<span style="color:blue"> > On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:18:49 -0500, "Jeffery Jones" > <nukem_54@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > I am personally aware of at least 20 machines infected with it.</span> You can't be "infected" by a hoax virus. <span style="color:blue"> > MalwareBites appears to take care of it.</span> Malware does bite doesn't it. <span style="color:blue"> > I had 4 emails yesterday using AVG. Tried a scan in the early morning > and nothing. Did a update and AVG then found it. > It appears to be a new version of an old trick. The email has an > attachment named Postcard.zip > > Here are a couple links for details on it. > http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/0cd97b3...f30ca1aa36a6a2d > http://www.threatexpert.com/report.aspx?md...f71769d3832f107</span> These are unrelated to the hoax, but if you get a zipped worm executable in an e-mail - it is obviously not a hoax. It wouldn't be the fist time that a malware used a known hoax filename to add to the confusion of users. <span style="color:blue"><span style="color:green"> >>Alright, >> >>I have Received some e-mails from all family members!! About this HOAX >>virus coming around from hallmark ( FAKE!)</span></span> When well intentioned people fall for the "chain letter" malware warning it clogs up the e-mail system as much (or as little) as most other chain letters do. The bigger problem is that it causes panic and most people will do completely unnecessary things to their computers. <span style="color:blue"><span style="color:green"> >>Wondering if anyone had heard of this, I did some research and found that >>that one e-mail was a hoax, but anyone else found different? )</span></span> Malke posted some good informational URLs - it will help you and your family members to recognise this kind of chain letter (and hopefully others as well). Quote
Guest Oòsóom Posted November 16, 2008 Posted November 16, 2008 On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:04:27 -0500, "FromTheRafters" <erratic@nomail.afraid.org> wrote: <span style="color:blue"> > >"Oòsóom" <oòsóom@notanemailaddress.com> wrote in message >news:g6e0i49k02474v21bspgqlbuk7eba7ul69@4ax.com...<span style="color:green"> >> On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:18:49 -0500, "Jeffery Jones" >> <nukem_54@hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> I am personally aware of at least 20 machines infected with it.</span> > >You can't be "infected" by a hoax virus.</span> You are right you can't but you can be infected by the real thing.<span style="color:blue"> ><span style="color:green"> >> MalwareBites appears to take care of it.</span> > >Malware does bite doesn't it. ></span> Sorry typo.<span style="color:blue"><span style="color:green"> >> I had 4 emails yesterday using AVG. Tried a scan in the early morning >> and nothing. Did a update and AVG then found it. >> It appears to be a new version of an old trick. The email has an >> attachment named Postcard.zip >> >> Here are a couple links for details on it. >> http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/0cd97b3...f30ca1aa36a6a2d >> http://www.threatexpert.com/report.aspx?md...f71769d3832f107</span> > >These are unrelated to the hoax, but if you get a zipped worm executable >in an e-mail - it is obviously not a hoax.</span> The OP asked about the Hoax to see if there was anything else about it. I posted information that a Email going around that appears to be from Halmark is the real thing. <span style="color:blue"> >It wouldn't be the fist time that a malware used a known hoax filename to >add to the confusion of users. ><span style="color:green"><span style="color:darkred"> >>>Alright, >>> >>>I have Received some e-mails from all family members!! About this HOAX >>>virus coming around from hallmark ( FAKE!)</span></span> > >When well intentioned people fall for the "chain letter" malware warning >it >clogs up the e-mail system as much (or as little) as most other chain >letters do. > >The bigger problem is that it causes panic and most people will do >completely >unnecessary things to their computers. ><span style="color:green"><span style="color:darkred"> >>>Wondering if anyone had heard of this, I did some research and found that >>>that one e-mail was a hoax, but anyone else found different? )</span></span> > >Malke posted some good informational URLs - it will help you and your family >members to recognise this kind of chain letter (and hopefully others as >well). ></span> Sorry that wasn't Malke that posted the links it was me. I have cleaned up 3 machines this weekend and have at least 15 more to clean up because of this so called "HOAX"! ------- For every idiot proofed system devised, a new and improved idiot will arise to over come it. Quote
Guest FromTheRafters Posted November 16, 2008 Posted November 16, 2008 "Oòsóom" <oòsóom@notanemailaddress.com> wrote in message news:33p0i49iodspfd125jh745nitcmb43as2k@4ax.com...<span style="color:blue"> > On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:04:27 -0500, "FromTheRafters" > <erratic@nomail.afraid.org> wrote: ><span style="color:green"> >> >>"Oòsóom" <oòsóom@notanemailaddress.com> wrote in message >>news:g6e0i49k02474v21bspgqlbuk7eba7ul69@4ax.com...<span style="color:darkred"> >>> On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:18:49 -0500, "Jeffery Jones" >>> <nukem_54@hotmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> I am personally aware of at least 20 machines infected with it.</span> >> >>You can't be "infected" by a hoax virus.</span> > You are right you can't but you can be infected by the real thing.</span> Yes, but that doesn't make the hoax any less fake. <span style="color:blue"><span style="color:green"><span style="color:darkred"> >>> MalwareBites appears to take care of it.</span> >> >>Malware does bite doesn't it. >></span> > Sorry typo.</span> I figured as much. style_emoticons/) <span style="color:blue"><span style="color:green"><span style="color:darkred"> >>> I had 4 emails yesterday using AVG. Tried a scan in the early morning >>> and nothing. Did a update and AVG then found it. >>> It appears to be a new version of an old trick. The email has an >>> attachment named Postcard.zip >>> >>> Here are a couple links for details on it. >>> http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/0cd97b3...f30ca1aa36a6a2d >>> http://www.threatexpert.com/report.aspx?md...f71769d3832f107</span> >> >>These are unrelated to the hoax, but if you get a zipped worm executable >>in an e-mail - it is obviously not a hoax.</span> > The OP asked about the Hoax to see if there was anything else about > it. I posted information that a Email going around that appears to be > from Halmark is the real thing.</span> Information is a good thing. I especially liked the information about how many instances of it infections you had seen. style_emoticons/D <span style="color:blue"><span style="color:green"> >>Malke posted some good informational URLs - it will help you and your >>family >>members to recognise this kind of chain letter (and hopefully others as >>well). >></span> > Sorry that wasn't Malke that posted the links it was me.</span> Those links weren't related to the OP's question - except that as you noted there is a real malware similar to the hoax. Even a rash of "panic e-mails" are a chain letter to me even if the threat is real. Plus, as I mentioned, malware authors have in the past used known hoax filenames in their malware. <span style="color:blue"> > I have > cleaned up 3 machines this weekend and have at least 15 more to clean > up because of this so called "HOAX"!</span> The hoax doesn't cause the problems you are having to fix. Quote
Guest Oòsóom Posted November 16, 2008 Posted November 16, 2008 On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:17:27 -0500, "FromTheRafters" <erratic@nomail.afraid.org> wrote: <span style="color:blue"> >"Oòsóom" <oòsóom@notanemailaddress.com> wrote in message >news:33p0i49iodspfd125jh745nitcmb43as2k@4ax.com...<span style="color:green"> >> On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:04:27 -0500, "FromTheRafters" >> <erratic@nomail.afraid.org> wrote: >><span style="color:darkred"> >>> >>>"Oòsóom" <oòsóom@notanemailaddress.com> wrote in message >>>news:g6e0i49k02474v21bspgqlbuk7eba7ul69@4ax.com... >>>> On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:18:49 -0500, "Jeffery Jones" >>>> <nukem_54@hotmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> I am personally aware of at least 20 machines infected with it. >>> >>>You can't be "infected" by a hoax virus.</span> >> You are right you can't but you can be infected by the real thing.</span> > >Yes, but that doesn't make the hoax any less fake. ><span style="color:green"><span style="color:darkred"> >>>> MalwareBites appears to take care of it. >>> >>>Malware does bite doesn't it. >>></span> >> Sorry typo.</span> > >I figured as much. style_emoticons/) ><span style="color:green"><span style="color:darkred"> >>>> I had 4 emails yesterday using AVG. Tried a scan in the early morning >>>> and nothing. Did a update and AVG then found it. >>>> It appears to be a new version of an old trick. The email has an >>>> attachment named Postcard.zip >>>> >>>> Here are a couple links for details on it. >>>> http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/0cd97b3...f30ca1aa36a6a2d >>>> http://www.threatexpert.com/report.aspx?md...f71769d3832f107 >>> >>>These are unrelated to the hoax, but if you get a zipped worm executable >>>in an e-mail - it is obviously not a hoax.</span> >> The OP asked about the Hoax to see if there was anything else about >> it. I posted information that a Email going around that appears to be >> from Halmark is the real thing.</span> > >Information is a good thing. > >I especially liked the information about how many instances of it >infections you had seen. style_emoticons/D ><span style="color:green"><span style="color:darkred"> >>>Malke posted some good informational URLs - it will help you and your >>>family >>>members to recognise this kind of chain letter (and hopefully others as >>>well). >>></span> >> Sorry that wasn't Malke that posted the links it was me.</span> > >Those links weren't related to the OP's question - except that as >you noted there is a real malware similar to the hoax. > >Even a rash of "panic e-mails" are a chain letter to me even if the >threat is real. Plus, as I mentioned, malware authors have in the >past used known hoax filenames in their malware. ><span style="color:green"> >> I have >> cleaned up 3 machines this weekend and have at least 15 more to clean >> up because of this so called "HOAX"!</span> > >The hoax doesn't cause the problems you are having to fix. ></span> I agree there is a Hoax email floating around that states there is a virus in a E-card from Hallmark. Here is an example. http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_postcard_virus.htm I was just letting everyone know there is a real threat going around using "You have recieved A Hallmark E-Card as the subject line" ------- For every idiot proofed system devised, a new and improved idiot will arise to over come it. Quote
Guest Jeffery Jones Posted November 16, 2008 Posted November 16, 2008 Thank you very much to all that replied!! this will help me as I go through out my day and family Wiggin out! "Oòsóom" <oòsóom@notanemailaddress.com> wrote in message news:7g01i45nam37hn0vltecqt14gk4a8qgpo2@4ax.com...<span style="color:blue"> > On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:17:27 -0500, "FromTheRafters" > <erratic@nomail.afraid.org> wrote: ><span style="color:green"> >>"Oòsóom" <oòsóom@notanemailaddress.com> wrote in message >>news:33p0i49iodspfd125jh745nitcmb43as2k@4ax.com...<span style="color:darkred"> >>> On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:04:27 -0500, "FromTheRafters" >>> <erratic@nomail.afraid.org> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>"Oòsóom" <oòsóom@notanemailaddress.com> wrote in message >>>>news:g6e0i49k02474v21bspgqlbuk7eba7ul69@4ax.com... >>>>> On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:18:49 -0500, "Jeffery Jones" >>>>> <nukem_54@hotmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I am personally aware of at least 20 machines infected with it. >>>> >>>>You can't be "infected" by a hoax virus. >>> You are right you can't but you can be infected by the real thing.</span> >> >>Yes, but that doesn't make the hoax any less fake. >><span style="color:darkred"> >>>>> MalwareBites appears to take care of it. >>>> >>>>Malware does bite doesn't it. >>>> >>> Sorry typo.</span> >> >>I figured as much. style_emoticons/) >><span style="color:darkred"> >>>>> I had 4 emails yesterday using AVG. Tried a scan in the early morning >>>>> and nothing. Did a update and AVG then found it. >>>>> It appears to be a new version of an old trick. The email has an >>>>> attachment named Postcard.zip >>>>> >>>>> Here are a couple links for details on it. >>>>> http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/0cd97b3...f30ca1aa36a6a2d >>>>> http://www.threatexpert.com/report.aspx?md...f71769d3832f107 >>>> >>>>These are unrelated to the hoax, but if you get a zipped worm executable >>>>in an e-mail - it is obviously not a hoax. >>> The OP asked about the Hoax to see if there was anything else about >>> it. I posted information that a Email going around that appears to be >>> from Halmark is the real thing.</span> >> >>Information is a good thing. >> >>I especially liked the information about how many instances of it >>infections you had seen. style_emoticons/D >><span style="color:darkred"> >>>>Malke posted some good informational URLs - it will help you and your >>>>family >>>>members to recognise this kind of chain letter (and hopefully others as >>>>well). >>>> >>> Sorry that wasn't Malke that posted the links it was me.</span> >> >>Those links weren't related to the OP's question - except that as >>you noted there is a real malware similar to the hoax. >> >>Even a rash of "panic e-mails" are a chain letter to me even if the >>threat is real. Plus, as I mentioned, malware authors have in the >>past used known hoax filenames in their malware. >><span style="color:darkred"> >>> I have >>> cleaned up 3 machines this weekend and have at least 15 more to clean >>> up because of this so called "HOAX"!</span> >> >>The hoax doesn't cause the problems you are having to fix. >></span> > I agree there is a Hoax email floating around that states there is a > virus in a E-card from Hallmark. > Here is an example. > http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_postcard_virus.htm > > I was just letting everyone know there is a real threat going around > using "You have recieved A Hallmark E-Card as the subject line" > > > > > ------- > For every idiot proofed system devised, > a new and improved idiot will arise to over come it. </span> Quote
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