You’ve received an e-card greeting from a friend!!
By dave • Jul 5th, 2007 • Category: G33kboxummm…no you haven’t. you’ve received a SPAM email that is phishing for your personal information, and you need to know more about it (so be sure to click the “read more” link below).
this is an email SPAM that seems to be making the rounds right now, and has been since sometime in June.
your email may look something like this (i’ve deactivated the links, for safety):
Good day.
Your school friend has sent you a postcard from hallmark.com.
Send free ecards from hallmark.com with your choice of colors, words and music.
Your ecard will be available with us for the next 30 days. If you wish to keep the ecard longer, you may save it on your computer or take a print.
To view your ecard, choose from any of the following options:
——–
OPTION 1
——–Click on the following Internet address or
copy & paste it into your browser’s address box.http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/?18529a3ab9d352785c21a5aa8088aea28a
——–
OPTION 2
——–Copy & paste the ecard number in the “View Your Card” box at http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Your ecard number is
18529a3ab9d352785c21a5aa8088aea28aBest wishes,
Mailer-Daemon,
hallmark.com
This is NOT from hallmark, and it is NOT legit. Absolutely do NOT click on the links or paste anything into your browser, or you will find yourself infected with the “Storm” trojan, which is a nasty little bugger!
July 5th, 2007 at 2:28 pm
I would have never suspected an e-card to be a phishing tool.
This is a good thing to know and information that I will be passing along to others. Is the attachment a keylogger or something?
July 5th, 2007 at 7:59 pm
I received at least 6 of those ecard greetings and attempted to open one since several people knew I’d just been in the hospital, I figured they had sent a card. Kinda strange when it didn’t go anywhere! Deleted the rest of them and hopefully didn’t do any major harm. I keep full headers on my emails and the returnpath didn’t match up. Thanks for the update.
May 18th, 2008 at 10:26 am
you might be infected Kat. Download your virus definition updates for whatever virus software you should be using. If you search around you might find instructions for looking for this bot on you computer.
Right now I use Norton and SpyBot and Zonealarm plus
regiscrub and they do tax system resources alot
Spybot has over 60thousand items it is watching out for.
I do a regular purge of all off line content and defrag the HD
to keep things perky. A system reboot every few days is a good idea
as memory leaks and errors build up to and make things sluggish or lock up.
I have 4 bots/virus/malware quarantened right now and am able to surf and
transfer files and such without infecting things like jump drives.
It is somewhat worrysome to have these files sitting waiting to
be unleashed but it beats spending alot of time
to go into safe mode and delete them or yikes fdisk and
reinstall the operating system
and all my software
May 18th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
Thanks but that post was July of last year I was having that problem. Have a new computer now. I hate this Vista and want my XP back. I was told by a doctor that he ‘bootlegged’ his new one back to XP! Hummm????
May 20th, 2008 at 6:20 am
doctors & cops always have the best dope bootlegged or not?LOL!
There should be xp versions still available that are not bootlegged
MS was force to do another release so there would be more
serial numbers available for legit versions. The legit version
may only be available on new computers installed by vendors?
There are complete versions hacked out there with all service packs
and updates but you have to turn off the automatic updates and
do not go for updates manually either or Microsoft will throw your
O.S. into a crippled mode that still works but is partially disabled.
(on one I saw this happend to it was mainly just a irritating bug
in the system tray but still, dang MS)
June 3rd, 2008 at 9:07 am
What is G33kbox? What is it’s purpose here on Rowan Review? Just wondering.