Re: [Merged] E-mail from NTL - possible virus
 

LynneC

Maybe worth you asking the Mods/Admin here to strip the e-mail address quoted from your post if it is a valid one and save you from the spam harvesters.

Re: [Merged] E-mail from NTL - possible virus
 

I've had one similar to mick44's this evening claiming to be from the ac.uk team instead. such a shame that dont exist (me guesses the virus e-mail claims to be from the last two words in the e-mail)
what was rather amusing was the uni e-mail server had caught and removed the attachment before it even got to me, made me chuckle at least.

Though i can see alot of daft people falling for it :s

Re: Email from NTL - possible virus
 

Yep I had that one over a month ago but deleted it never had it since

Re: [Merged] E-mail from NTL - possible virus
 

Riddles, welcome to nthw!.

Interesting idea, emailing someone to say you have disabled their email account. Very Zen.

Mind you, I can actually imagine NTL doing something like that.

Re: Ntl sending viruses!
 

This shows the true sender of the virus to have been 213.48.235.184, a user of the BlueYonder network, whom you probably know, as they have you in their address book.

Re: [Merged] E-mail from NTL - possible virus
 

Riddles, I hope you have figured out now that the attachment was a virus, bagle.j.

Re: [Merged] E-mail from NTL - possible virus
 

I figured out straight away as I've had a few emails like this from different sources. It was deleted after I copied & Pasted it here.

Seemed a bit obvious when they use the email address to send you an email telling you your account has been disabled.....hardly brain surgeon's these guys are they.

Re: [Merged] E-mail from NTL - possible virus
 

Nope - but then neither are the kind of people these viruses are aimed at... :dozey:

It obviously works - as the number of reported infections is climbing all the time... :Yikes:

Re: [Merged] E-mail from NTL - possible virus
 

If you receive any emails with:

E-mail account disabling warning.
E-mail account security warning.
Email account utilization warning.
Important notify about your e-mail account.
Notify about using the e-mail account.
Notify about your e-mail account utilization
Warning about your e-mail account.
(there are more of these! check antivirus sites for full info)

its fake. this is the bagle.j worm.

The netsky virus is also hammering email servers and users with :-

Re: Re: Re: Your document
Re: Hello
Re: Hi
Re: Re: Message
Re: Your picture
Re: Here is the document
Re: Your document
(there are more of these! check antivirus sites for full info)

its really simple! DONT OPEN ATTACHMENTS! even if it does appear to come from a 'Friend' IF IN DOUBT delete it ......or phone your 'friend' and ask if he/she actually sent the email.


Half the viruses out there are HOPELESS unless people help them along by opening attachments! it appears a lot of people WORLD WIDE seem to just CLICK AND OPEN. :dozey:

Think about it....would you let someone in to your home if they said they were from the water company...just because they have a nice ID badge? NO you'd phone the company and make sure the person @ ur door was lagit.

oh and if you have a look at some attachments that may come in by email, they will have double file extensions.

E.G.
yoursoftware.doc.exe
yourfiles.xls.pif
NEVER EVER EVER open these types! that really is asking for trouble

anyway! keep those virus scanners up to date!

Re: [Merged] E-mail from NTL - possible virus
 

You know the sad thing is that people use that ploy to break into houses all the time - and people just let them in....... :Yikes:

Unfortunately (In my Experience) the majority of people who spread these viruses are normally intelligent people who seem to have no common sense when it comes to computers. (unlike me who has no common sense when it comes to reality ;) )

Re: [Merged] E-mail from NTL - possible virus
 

Trouble is that most versions of MS windows turn of the file extention view option by default so a file like picture.bmp.scr looks like picture.bmp if the option is turned off. When are MS going to come to there senses and set this option to enabled as default ???????

Re: [Merged] E-mail from NTL - possible virus
 

I don't know why they even bother to have an option to turn on / off file extensions. It would certainly be better just to show them by default.

The problem though is that people tend to either know about file extensions or they don't and if they don't then it doesn't really matter whether they are shown or not.

Re: [Merged] E-mail from NTL - possible virus
 

Very true m8..... At least they have made a step in the right direction by blocking attachments in OE...... It can be a pain in the ass but at least it stops noobie users executing the files....... Shame they dont block active scripting on the emails to !!!

Re: [Merged] E-mail from NTL - possible virus
 

Got this


Dear user of Ntlworld.com gateway e-mail server,

Your e-mail account will be disabled because of improper using in next
three days, if you are still wishing to use it, please, resign your
account information.

For more information see the attached file.

Kind regards,
The Ntlworld.com team http://www.ntlworld.com

Re: [Merged] E-mail from NTL - possible virus
 

Its a fake mail m8.... Delete it !