[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: ADMIN>snopes confirms this greeting card link BAD Virus is for real --CNN announced
- From: MORGAN LEWIS <shadowland22000@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: gsd showlist <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 11:34:05 -0700 (PDT)
THIS PAQRTICULAR MEANS OF INSERTING A VIRUS IN YOUR SYSTEM, HAS BEEN
PARTICULARLY NAST, MANY BUSINESSES WERE AFFECTED. mORGAN
DOC ZOE <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: On 17 Aug 2007, at 21:17, Susan Case
wrote:
Here is a link to the Snopes page:
http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/postcard.asp
Postcard
Virus: You've Received a Postcard from a Family Member!
Status: Real virus.
Examples: [Collected via e-mail, June 2007]
Subject: You've received a postcard from a family member!
Good day.
Your family member has sent you an ecard from notme.hk.
Send free ecards from notme.hk 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:
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OPTION 1
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Click on the following Internet address or
copy & paste it into your browser's address box.
http://notme.hk/?6e47840d8e117868911e6c3
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OPTION 2
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Copy & paste the ecard number in the "View Your Card" box at
http://notme.hk/
Your ecard number is
6e47840d8e117868911e6c3
Best wishes,
Postmaster,
notme.hk
*If you would like to send someone an ecard, you can do so at
http://notme.hk/
Variations: Other subject lines used with this message include the following:
* You've received a greeting card from a school-mate!
* You've received a greeting ecard from a class mate!
* You've received a greeting ecard from a neighbour!
* You've received a greeting postcard from a partner!
* You've received a greeting postcard from a worshipper!
* You've received a postcard from a family member!
* You've received a postcard from a neighbour!
* You've received a postcard from a worshipper!
* You've received an ecard from a colleague!
* Class-mate sent you an ecard from vintagepostcards.com!
* Colleague sent you a greeting ecard from postcardsfrom.com!
* School mate sent you a greeting ecard from greetingcard.org!
* Family member sent you a postcard from dgreetings.com!
* Neighbour sent you a greeting ecard from NetFunCards.com!
* School-mate sent you an ecard from mypostcards.com!
* Worshipper sent you an ecard from greetingcard.org!
* Colleague sent you a postcard from egreetings.com!
* Neighbour sent you a greeting ecard from all-yours.net!
* School friend sent you an ecard from postcards.org!
* Holiday e-card
* Movie-quality e-card
* Love postcard
* Birthday e-card
* Thank you card
* Musical postcard
* Funny postcard
Origins: Many web sites offer a service that allows a user to send a customized
"greeting card" (or "postcard") to a relative, friend, or acquaintance,
delivered
as an e-mail message containing a hyperlink which the recipient follows to
visit the originating site and view the card. Sending out phony e-card
notifications is therefore an effective method of camouflaging viruses and
inducing unwitting recipients into clicking on links that install malicious
programs onto their computers.
A wave of malicious messages (like the one reproduced above) sent out in June
2007 employed that very technique, arriving in inboxes bearing subject lines
such as "You've received a postcard from a family member!" The mes
sages contain URLs that recipients are supposed to visit to retrieve their
e-cards, but those URLs actually point to servers hosting a variety of malware
(including a variant of the Storm Trojan, "an aggressive piece of m
alware that has been hijacking computers to serve as attacker bots" since early
2007) that is furtively installed onto victims' PCs. (Generally, only unpatched
Windows-based systems are vulnerable.)
Since many of these malicious messages imitate notifications from legitimate
e-card sites, recipients should get into the habit of never clicking on links
contained within e-card notification e-mails. Instead, go directly to the web
site of the card company, find the card pickup page within that
site, and enter the ID code included in the e-mail. (If the message was a fake,
the worst that will happen is that you won't get a card.)
NOTE: Readers should take particular care not to confuse the real
postcard/greeting card virus with the "Virtual Card for You" hoax that has been
circulating for several years. Some of the "Postcard" warnings contribute to
this confusion by including within them a link to
http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/virtualcard.asp, our article about the
"Virtual Card for You" hoax.
They're not the same thing, despite some e-mail warnings that erroneously
present them as such.
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