New virus purporting to be from 'ProZ.com Team' (or other 'Teams') Thread poster: Jason Grimes
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One of the latest variations of the Bagle (or Beagle) virus that is sweeping across the Internet disguises itself as a seemingly legitimate e-mail message from ProZ.com Staff ("The Proz.com Team") and urges recipients to click on an attachment for further details about their account. Do not open the attachment. ProZ.com does not use e-mail attachments as a method of disseminating information to members.
Bogus Bagle virus warning messages include:
e-mail account securit... See more One of the latest variations of the Bagle (or Beagle) virus that is sweeping across the Internet disguises itself as a seemingly legitimate e-mail message from ProZ.com Staff ("The Proz.com Team") and urges recipients to click on an attachment for further details about their account. Do not open the attachment. ProZ.com does not use e-mail attachments as a method of disseminating information to members.
Bogus Bagle virus warning messages include:
e-mail account security warning, notify about using the e-mail account, warning about your e-mail account, important notify about your e-mail account, e-mail account utilization warning, notify about your e-mail account utilization, and e-mail account disabling warning.
Opening the attachment connected with these bogus e-mail messages will unleash the Bagle virus into the recipient's computer, enabling the virus to continue distributing itself across the Internet and to disable the host computer's security programs.
More information can be found at McAfee/Network Associate's page about this virus:
http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_101071.htm
Regards,
Jason ▲ Collapse
| | | | Lydia Molea 
Germany
Local time: 22:28
English to German
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| Yahoo, as well | Mar 3, 2004 |
Today I received an e-mail -supposedly- from the "Yahoo.de Team" with "notify about your account" as a subject. It had an attached file, which I did not open, of course. I am assuming it's the same thing.
| | | | Hynek Palatin
Czech Republic
Local time: 22:28
Member (2003)
English to Czech
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The email has the following characteristics:
From: Spoofed to appear as if it's coming from the one of the following addresses at the recipient's domain:
- management@<recipient domain>
- administration@<recipient domain>
- staff@<recipient domain>
- noreply@<recipient domain>
- support@<recipient domain>
Attachment: A randomly named .exe file, inside a .zip file, or an .pif file. The... See more The email has the following characteristics:
From: Spoofed to appear as if it's coming from the one of the following addresses at the recipient's domain:
- management@<recipient domain>
- administration@<recipient domain>
- staff@<recipient domain>
- noreply@<recipient domain>
- support@<recipient domain>
Attachment: A randomly named .exe file, inside a .zip file, or an .pif file. The zip file will be password-protected.
More information: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[email protected] ▲ Collapse
| | | | Irene N
United States
Local time: 15:28
English to Russian
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| More variations | Mar 3, 2004 |
In two days I received 5 e-mails with attachments and Subject line filled out "Re: Your Letter", "Re: Your Document". Be careful, watch for senders!
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Gerard de Noord
France
Local time: 22:28
Member (2003)
English to Dutch
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Hi Jason,
Today I received this virus from my OWN team. I thought I had seen them all...
Regards,
Gerard
| | | | Yelena.
United Kingdom
Local time: 21:28
English to Russian
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Gerard de Noord wrote:
Today I received this virus from my OWN team. I thought I had seen them all...
So did I..... an email from my own domain with a zip file..... Viruses galore....
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The worst with this flood of viruses, is that today I almost deleted a (real) message from a member of my subcommunity : he had simply written "hello" in the subject line .. like many viruses do!
Florence
PS - and just while I was writing that - I receive a message from my domain name "management team" (that is, me)sending me an attachment with a ... See more
| | | | LJC (X)
France
Local time: 22:28
French to English
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| Yes, it is a flood | Mar 4, 2004 |
I've never had so many viruses as I've had in the last week or so. I've also noticed that Norton is now updating almost every day. I usually go straight to my mailbox when I go online - but not anymore. I now come here to ProZ.com first and Norton has time to update while I'm browsing the site, and only then do I go to my mailbox, safe in the knowledge that I've got the latest update (if there is one).
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Hynek Palatin
Czech Republic
Local time: 22:28
Member (2003)
English to Czech
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| Mónica Machado
United Kingdom
Local time: 21:28
English to Portuguese
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| Virus writers should send virus to themselves only | Mar 4, 2004 |
Hello,
Just to say that I quite agree with you all. I have received 6 to 8 e-mails with virus every day since last week and this is really a nightmare. Of course I don't open them but we really have to be careful. They come disquised in any forms and shapes. Just an advise... if you aren't expecting an attachment and you receive one with subject line or content that makes no sense... just delete it and if you know the sender ask him/her if he has sent any thing to you lately. If he/... See more Hello,
Just to say that I quite agree with you all. I have received 6 to 8 e-mails with virus every day since last week and this is really a nightmare. Of course I don't open them but we really have to be careful. They come disquised in any forms and shapes. Just an advise... if you aren't expecting an attachment and you receive one with subject line or content that makes no sense... just delete it and if you know the sender ask him/her if he has sent any thing to you lately. If he/she has done so, and if the attachment was a good one, then the sender can resend it again safely.
Virus writers should send virus to themselves only and stop that spam:-(
All the best
Mónica ▲ Collapse
| | | | Henk Peelen
Netherlands
Local time: 22:28
Member (2002)
German to Dutch
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SITE LOCALIZER | example of "virus message" via e-mail | Mar 4, 2004 |
Dear user of "Compuserve.Com" mailing system,
We warn you about some attacks on your e-mail account. Your computer may contain viruses, in order to keep your computer and e-mail account safe, please, follow the instructions.
Advanced details can be found in attached file.
Best wishes,
The Compuserve.Com team http://www.compuserve.Com
... See more Dear user of "Compuserve.Com" mailing system,
We warn you about some attacks on your e-mail account. Your computer may contain viruses, in order to keep your computer and e-mail account safe, please, follow the instructions.
Advanced details can be found in attached file.
Best wishes,
The Compuserve.Com team http://www.compuserve.Com
----------------------- Internet Header --------------------------------
Sender: [email protected]
Received: from Daryl (ip3e83d5e5.speed.planet.nl [62.131.213.229])
by siaag2af.compuserve.com (8.12.9/8.12.7/SUN-2.12) with SMTP id i24ElI49022643
for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2004 09:47:18 -0500 (EST)
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 15:50:05 +0100
To: [email protected]
Subject: Email account utilization warning.
From: [email protected]
Message-ID:
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="--------xjikfaeiyygwquvtjwnr"
[Edited at 2004-03-04 20:04] ▲ Collapse
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Be careful!
There is also another virus, called trojan horse that I have just fixed.... I arrives through e-mail and the subject is: test, there's something for you with attachments.
Be careful because it gives problems at starting internet explorer.
Valentina
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