Dilibrate VIRUS Attack! - Page 2

mrscrogg · #11 March 26th, 2004, 03:42 AM

Atrocities, I just sent you an e-mail apologizing for the virus sent to you . I enjoy everything you have done for SEIV in general and this mod in particlular and would not do anything to hurt you or anyone ,but to accuse someone of being a diabolical mastermind focusing on just you is ludicruss . I e-mailed you because you requested my game files because I was have a problem with the game which I thanked you for as you helped me out once before .Everyone out there reading this has more knowledge about computers and software in your little pinkies than I have all toghther . Please forgive my babbling and spelling as I'm very upset at the moment. By the way my e-mails do state that " all attachments are protected by macafree securities" and I do have the Norton's software installed in my computer . So please take my word that nothing was done intentioally and I'm sorry for any inconvience I've caused you , Atrocities

Atrocities · #12 March 26th, 2004, 03:45 AM

Thanks CW for helping figure out what was sent.

Atrocities · #13 March 26th, 2004, 03:47 AM

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Originally posted by mrscrogg:
Atrocities, I just sent you an e-mail apologizing for the virus sent to you . I enjoy everything you have done for SEIV in general and this mod in particlular and would not do anything to hurt you or anyone ,but to accuse someone of being a diabolical mastermind focusing on just you is ludicruss . I e-mailed you because you requested my game files because I was have a problem with the game which I thanked you for as you helped me out once before .Everyone out there reading this has more knowledge about computers and software in your little pinkies than I have all toghther . Please forgive my babbling and spelling as I'm very upset at the moment. By the way my e-mails do state that " all attachments are protected by macafree securities" and I do have the Norton's software installed in my computer . So please take my word that nothing was done intentioally and I'm sorry for any inconvience I've caused you , Atrocities

You may not have sent the file. From what we can tell it was a virus maskerading as an HTML file.

Save Games are not HTML format. Therefore the files you sent were not the files I received. This means that at some point those files were changed. Now how could that have occured? I am left to beleive that who ever sent me this file (the HTML one) did so by hyjacking your email. Again why would they do this? I simply do not know.

I did not use names, and I do not believe you had anything to do with it so rest easy.

[ March 26, 2004, 01:51: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

mrscrogg · #14 March 26th, 2004, 03:55 AM

Atrocities, thank you !

President_Elect_Shang · #15 March 26th, 2004, 05:33 AM

It is most likely the virus masquerading itself by using his email, I just had this same problem with my AKO account when the Army computers where hit and I was one of the unlucky ones to have my email pulled. I have already gotten back several Messages complaining that I sent them a virus when I didn�t. That is why I was asking if you knew who it was from. It may not be on your computer mrscrogg, it may be in the server that your mail routes through. In any case I would check to make sure that your virus software is up to date.

Intimidator · #16 March 26th, 2004, 11:02 PM

Had the same **** 30 minutes ago !!

one mail adressed to me personally (same as AT)
The text said : turn attached (I'm playing some PBEM's), but NO subject.

Because I didn't know the name of the Sender I didn't trust it and deleted the message, only than Norton came alive (I guess he was sleeping) and warned me.

Weird, I'm affraid someone from PBW or this forum is f*cking.

Thermodyne · #17 March 26th, 2004, 11:25 PM

Netsky will look for and use saved sent email on some systems as an address/subject line source. This is a new addition to the virus that has only been recently seen. It almost forced us to take our external email system down this week. We couldn't use the filters we normally use, and the load with the scanning filters was killing the mail server. We were recording over 600 hits an hour.

Thermodyne · #18 March 26th, 2004, 11:28 PM

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Originally posted by Combat Wombat:
Thats what I don't like about emails you cant tell who sent them for sure. The whole system should be reworked to be more secure becuase of things like this and more and more people are using email instead of normal mail. There is no way to completely code a brand new system and get everything and everyone to use it though.

IP ver.6 and scanning backbone routers will fix most of this. But then it will also place some limits on the open-ness of the internet.

[ March 26, 2004, 21:30: Message edited by: Thermodyne ]

President_Elect_Shang · #19 March 26th, 2004, 11:39 PM

Here is my conversation with the tech support people when I called about my other email account (paraphrased) that was hit by something similar:

The virus (maybe they said worm I honestly can�t remember) pulled some accounts, wrote Messages using addresses and subject lines from my [undeleted] out box, then attached its self (I am pretty sure they said as html code) and went out. For those address I had never written to (Microsoft was one) it included a generic subject line.

That is to the best of my memory and I hope it sheds some new light. It sounds like Thermodyne experienced the same thing, but I had it happen to me Last week.

[ March 26, 2004, 21:40: Message edited by: President Elect Shang ]

Atrocities · #20 March 27th, 2004, 05:13 AM

We all get the Masqurading Emails all the time. Hell I got one from Malfador a week or so ago. That is all find and dandy, we have learned to ignor most of these.

Its when the email is sent to another account, one that does not have your name, and includes text that addresses you BY name that has me worried.

This is what happened. I believe at some point some hacker/virus maker came up with a way to "hijack" your email and substitute a virus for a file your emailing, or simply attack itself to the email as an HTML doc.

The HTML doc. I recieved was titled Space Empires.html (Hidden was the .src extention)

I don't know what to say other than we are all at risk. Hell for all I know my system could be infected and sending out random emails with virus attachements despite my Anti Virus software and PestPatrol anti pest software.

These viruses are afterall, how Nortan and McAfee (same company) stay in business.

(Hummmmmmm, I wonder who it could be making these new viruses??? Duhhhhhhhhhhhh)