[38251] in APO-L
Re: [APO-L] Do NOT open the message earlier today with link
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charlie Zimmerman)
Mon Dec 28 16:08:58 2009
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:07:41 -0500
Reply-To: Charlie Zimmerman <charliez@AOL.COM>
From: Charlie Zimmerman <charliez@AOL.COM>
To: APO-L@listserv.iupui.edu
In-Reply-To: <258852.82350.qm@web38205.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Kami -=20
Thanks for sending this note. I was going to send out a similar warning,=
as the e-mail that was reportedly sent a week or so ago by "Ed Janison"=
contained a similarly malicious link. I've been battling malware ever si=
nce I accidentally clicked it and immediately started seeing warnings from=
Symantec AntiVirus.
Symptoms include being frequently rerouted to "thewebsitesurvey.com" and=
having my Google search results intermittently "hijacked" - sending me=
to a myriad of bogus web pages. Symantec AntiVirus and Malwarebytes (fre=
e tool from malwarebytes.com) have each cleaned up SOME of the infection,=
but not all. Reinstalling IE8 also did nothing to improve the situation.=
Research on the web has not turned up reports of anything truly maliciou=
s (i.e. keystroke logging, password captures, file deletion, etc.) associa=
ted with the survey site, but caution is strongly advised.
It's disappointing that we've been hit with this bug, just as APO-L has a=
seen a little bump in activity. We had been virus/spam free for years.=
Rule of thumb - if you see any messages (APO-L or otherwise) with just=
a single link, DELETE THEM. Can't believe I actually got snagged by this=
, but it just goes to show that anyone can get hit by this kind of stuff.
Fraternally,
Charlie Zimmerman
APO-L Administrator
charliez@aol.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Kami Bush <kbush123@YAHOO.COM>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
Sent: Mon, Dec 28, 2009 2:43 pm
Subject: [APO-L] Do NOT open the message earlier today with link
I apologize to everyone but it seems my yahoo account was hacked this morn=
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and a bunch of emails were sent as me. I'm not sure if it was hacked or=
spoofed=20
but since it went out to my address book, I'm assuming hacked. Please do=
not=20
click on the link. It seems to be a virus or malware. Once again, I apol=
ogize=20
for the inconvenience.
Kami
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