| Fake e-card viruses getting harder to stop Read about it here: »www.computerworld.com/action/art···&nlid=38 |
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 CudniLa Merma - VigiladoPremium,MVM
join:2003-12-20
Someshire
kudos:13 | from link
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All recipients have to do to trigger the virus is to click on the link created by the e-mail client once they have read the message, he said. .."
don't click disappoint them instead 
»Selema must really love me...
Cudni
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 mousePremium
join:2007-03-29
australia | reply to daveinpoway
I have been swamped by these cards over the last 3 weeks and it does not seem to ease. What surprises me is that almost simultaneously a number of my email addresses that never had any spam have received these and continue to receive them. This must be an outbreak of much higher proportions than what we saw before, otherwise I don't understand why all of a sudden I actually feel bothered.
In the past I received the odd spam, easily handled by a spam program and some caution as the spam email would stick out like the proverbial thumb. Now I receive more spam than real emails and it does not just affect one address.  |
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 MagManLife is simpler when you tell the truth.Premium
join:2003-10-01
Westlake, OH
 ·AT&T Midwest
·AT&T Midwest
| said by mouse:I have been swamped by these cards over the last 3 weeks and it does not seem to ease. What surprises me is that almost simultaneously a number of my email addresses that never had any spam have received these and continue to receive them. This must be an outbreak of much higher proportions than what we saw before, otherwise I don't understand why all of a sudden I actually feel bothered. In the past I received the odd spam, easily handled by a spam program and some caution as the spam email would stick out like the proverbial thumb. Now I receive more spam than real emails and it does not just affect one address. Agreed these e-mails are getting very annoying!!
I too receive more and more of these everyday.My question to this is,there are legit web sites out there that provide these type of e-mails.Are they not getting a little pissed about all of these phony e-mails going around.It definitely has to have hurt their revenues in some way. 
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 La LunaSurvived AshrafulPremium
join:2001-07-12
Warwick, NY
kudos:3
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I'm insulted, I haven't received one of these emails, in either my primary ISP email account or my gmail account (I get tons of spam in gmail daily, but none of those "cards").
Have no idea what triggers it so that some people get them and some people don't. |
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 delenn13De gustibus nil disputandumPremium,MVM
join:2006-03-02
Ridgeway, ON | I have not gotten one single one from my Gmail or my main account. Now with my Yahoo account in the past 4 weeks or more I probably get 7 or 8 a day from a neighbor, school/classmate, friend. You name it. 
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said by La Luna:I'm insulted, I haven't received one of these emails, in either my primary ISP email account or my gmail account (I get tons of spam in gmail daily, but none of those "cards"). Just so you don't feel left out, I can "bounce" you several I have gotten.  Just post your e-mail address and I will get right on it.
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 TheJokerPremium,VIP,MVM
join:2001-04-26
Alexandria, VA
kudos:5 | reply to La Luna
I had spam in my Gmail account minutes after creating the account, and continue to get tons of it. Their spam filter works well though (at least for me, YMMV).
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 roc5955Premium
join:2005-11-26
Rosendale, NY
1 edit | reply to daveinpoway
They are especially hard to stop, when you have to maintain over 1000 users. No matter how many times you tell them NOT to open something, they will open it.
I even got one several weeks ago from "an admirer." Being a curmudgeon, I can be sure in the fact that ESPECIALLY this one was false. I have no admirers, and if I did, I would have to kill them.
Oh, and now the spam is coming in the form of .PDF files. Be on the lookout for viagra, penile and breast implant, get rich quick, and other schemes coming attached as .PDFs.
And I am sure that those losers users will open them, even though they have been told not to open anything that they were not expecting.
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 NetFixerFreedom is NOT freePremium
join:2004-06-24
The 'Boro
·Vonage
 ·Cingular Wireless
·Comcast
·AT&T Southeast
3 edits | reply to Cudni
I just couldn't resist seeing what the payload and delivery method looked like for that one. Since that email made it past my outsourced primary and in-house secondary spam perimeters (only to be flagged as spam by my email client), I felt it deserved special attention.
That particular e-card infection was in fact not a drive-by self installing malware, but simply an old fashioned social engineering scam that required the victim to manually click the download link, and then actually run the downloaded executable.
Here is the simple plain html code from the download site:
To view your ecard, you need to have Microsoft Data Access installed on your computer.<br>
To obtain a free copy of Microsoft Data Access, please <a href="/msdataaccess.exe">click here</a>.
The page did not even contain the normal html header information it was so simple. The email itself was equally simple, which is why it made it past two layers of spam filtering.
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La LunaSurvived AshrafulPremium
join:2001-07-12
Warwick, NY
kudos:3 Reviews:
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·Optimum Online
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said by astirusty:said by La Luna:I'm insulted, I haven't received one of these emails, in either my primary ISP email account or my gmail account (I get tons of spam in gmail daily, but none of those "cards"). Just so you don't feel left out, I can "bounce" you several I have gotten. Just post your e-mail address and I will get right on it. Sure.... La Luna@BiteMe.net
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 PolarBear03The bear formerly known as aaron8301Premium
join:2005-01-03 | reply to daveinpoway
Gmail FTW I still have never gotten one. Anyone have one? Forward it to me:
aaron8301 (at) gmail.com
and PM me to let me know you sent it. I'd like to know how Gmail handles it, and if I do indeed get it, how Kaspersky handles it.
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Re: Fake e-card viruses getting harder to stop I'm getting them on my pacbell account. When I log into it via Yahoo about 90% are classified as spam. When I check via outlook its about 50-50. I just don't open them.
The cards I'm waiting to get/open are the condolence cards from the Nigerian Viagra/Offshore Pharmacy companies (with Pron pictures of course on the cover) expressing their sorrow over the death of my 35 family members on that one cursed stretch of highway. I already gave them my bank account #'s to tranfer my share of the money they are laundering...why havn't I seen it yet though? *lol*
r_r
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 E_VPremium
join:2000-09-29
Vancouver, BC
kudos:4 | reply to daveinpoway
I feel badly for the legitimate ecard biz but personally I detest ecards as much as I do chain emails.
I've got a crapload of malware quarantined after looking into these. At least educated users can have some control over the installation for the majority of them. I'm more annoyed by the boatloads of efax spam I get. |
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 Pichin
join:2001-07-01
Oviedo, FL | reply to La Luna
I am not insulted but feeling like...LEFT OUT!!! |
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Pichin
join:2001-07-01
Oviedo, FL | reply to daveinpoway
can someone forward one to me salpiche at cfl.rr.com
thanks
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 koamPink PeckerPremium
join:2000-08-16
East Puddle
·Shoreham Telephone
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said by La Luna:I'm insulted, I haven't received one of these emails... You're insulted? All my spam is about my small cock. |
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 jbobReach Out and Touch SomeonePremium
join:2004-04-26
Little Rock, AR | said by koam:said by La Luna:I'm insulted, I haven't received one of these emails... You're insulted? All my spam is about my small cock. That would be a chick! |
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 GooioolMay God bless you.Premium
join:2006-11-27
Fort Smith, AR
kudos:4 | reply to astirusty
said by astirusty:said by La Luna:I'm insulted, I haven't received one of these emails, in either my primary ISP email account or my gmail account (I get tons of spam in gmail daily, but none of those "cards"). Just so you don't feel left out, I can "bounce" you several I have gotten. Just post your e-mail address and I will get right on it. A big ol' lol for that !
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mq8
join:2007-08-17
Orlando, FL | reply to daveinpoway
I've been getting plenty of it for the past couple weeks. Within the past couple days, I've noticed a couple of formats for it:
quote:
I`m in hurry, but i still love you...
(as you can see on the ecard)
»24.xx.xx.32/
quote:
Good day.
Your Neighbor has sent you birthday card from ecard4all.com.
Click on your birthday card link below:
»24.xx.xx.58/
Copyright (c) 1997-2007 ecard4all.com All Rights Reserved
quote:
Hi. Class mate has sent you an ecard.
See your card as often as you wish during the next 15 days.
SEEING YOUR CARD
If your email software creates links to Web pages, click on your card's direct www address below while you are connected to the Internet:
»24.xx.xx.22/?ea95523893748ae5680c1a02b54ce75
Or copy and paste it into your browser's "Location" box (where Internet addresses go).
We hope you enjoy your awesome card.
Wishing you the best,
Postmaster,
greetingcard.org
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