Getting (fake) virus emails from NW.


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I saw this and was surprised... I have a corporate firewall running, and looked in Quarentine and saw W32.Netsky.P@mm

Symantec Email Proxy deleted the following email message:

From: voodoo@neowin.net

To: smk [at]skatemanknight.com

Subject: Re: thanks!

the messege header was spoofed to ghost itself so there is none..

Anyone else got this?

-Ian :no:

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I keep getting emails pretending to be from Neowin and Neowin Members, but it's always from d66-183-72-219.bchsia.telus.net... If only I knew who that was.

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Can you post the complete headers?

this is it..

From: Symantec Email Proxy

Subject: Symantec Email Proxy Deleted Message

i think symantec del'ed it?

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this is it..

i think symantec del'ed it?

Well that's not the complete header but your probably right, Norton probably deleted the email.

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I believe netsky looks at the users address book, and uses names from there. I am sure that voodoo did not send it, just a case of voodoo being in someones address book that was infected.

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Some people just need to be shot.

Read Here: http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyc...e=WORM_NETSKY.P

If your too Lazy to read there, here is a quote from the page on the WORM_NETSKY.P Virus

The email that it sends out has varying subjects, message bodies, and attachment file names. It gathers email addresses from files with certain extension names.

So in other words (like I said before) These viruses ARE NOT coming from voodoo. OR neowin. They are probably coming from someone who visits neowin who had voodoo's email address somewhere on their machine from a file in the list above. :argh:

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smk? I know that idiot. He's on my MSN list. :shifty:

:o thats mean. :(

yeh just to confirm it was not me m'lord :p

-Didnt think so :p

-Ian.

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Keep getting those Netsky viruses in my email...

Anyone know how to block them out?

I get about twenty of those a day in my email.

Haven't found a way to block them yet...except yahoo sents them to my bulk folder.

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Well, let me tell you something interesting:

Ever since I went online with this machine I'm using now, the only viruses that mange to get into my system are all Netsky viruses.

Hard to believe, but true. Once, one even got into my system. My anti-virus software detected it and threw it out of Windows immediately. :)

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I get about twenty of those a day in my email.

Haven't found a way to block them yet...except yahoo sents them to my bulk folder.

ditto. as long as we dont open them whatever

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I get about twenty of those a day in my email.

Haven't found a way to block them yet...except yahoo sents them to my bulk folder.

I have, my server deletes them :D

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