December 29, 2005

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  December 29, 2005 Edit … final edit on this blog … the final sign of hacker/terrorist desperation came into my email tonight containing you guessed it, the deletedo virus script and the email reads … From: webmaster@aol.com Subject: Registration Confirmation  NOW THAT OUGHT TO CATCH A FEW FISH … these guys will try anything. Edits Below in purple and Pink … Virus Emails, I wanted to write a quick entry … my emails are full of intended virus invasions.  They are coming with all types of subject lines.  I know most of us have good virus protection but just in case, keep careful watch over what you open.  I am getting emails saying I have been sending virus out (which I haven’t), subject lines telling me I am visiting obscene sites and they are watching my whereabouts as if they are the FBI and please visit a particular site to redeem myself, tons of emails  saying my mail hasn’t been delivered and each and every one of these have something to do with infecting my computer.  Take care of your valuables weather they are Dells or PowerSpecs or Apples, no matter they are very important to each of you.  The world would be a better place without the terrorists who try so hard to deceive us into opening those invasive, explosive and hurtful emails.  I keep hoping for the day we are able to blow these nuts out of the water with a growing number of highly sophisticated, increasingly intelligent email receivers and software developed to a stage we won’t have to worry about the fools anymore.  My first virus carrying email for today 12/30/2005, taken from the guts of the email … Dear Sir/Madam, we have logged your IP-address on more than 30 illegal Websites. Important: Please answer our questions! The list of questions are attached. Yours faithfully, Steven Allison   ++++ Central Intelligence Agency -CIA- ++++ Office of Public Affairs ++++ Washington, D.C. 20505 ++++ phone: (703) 482-0623 ++++ 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., US Eastern time –===7ad093548.7082 Content-Type: text/plain; name=DELETED0.TXT Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=”DELETED0.TXT”  Notice the .txt is a change my email provider made to the harmful file which would have been a .exe or possible a .doc and screen saver extensions are often used, a .scr.  I believe there are other file extensions that can carry a virus, also.   The Deletado is an old virus that should be well known by most readers and it is possible it was hiding under another name before it was changed by my provider in the email, I’m not sure.  I can’t imagine anyone opening an attachment with the name of “deletedo”.  Anyway, these fools will do anything to try to get you to open a destructive email.  CAREFUL AND THOUGHTFUL WILL DO YOU A LOT OF FAVORS.  Another virus traveling the net is being carried in an email with the subject line containing the names of two very popular movie stars.  It came in several times yesterday and I expect to see it more than a single time today.  Holidays seem to be a popular time for mice/rats/scum to play.  *  Follow this link CLICK HERE for a peek at some of the many subject lines that come in to your emails carrying a virus.  Not all are listed.   I hope everyone is enjoying their Christmas season.  Mine, so far, is very hectic.  Today is my birthday, Dec 30 and I am 62.  I didn’t make it this far by being so stupid I would open virus emails from fools.  I hope any reading will foil the idiots as well with good virus protection and good common sense.   I rate common sense high on my list of qualities worth developing.   Becca

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