virus email...what's this about? any help admins?

[batkins]

I received this email today. Anyone else get one? Anyone know who it's from or what its about? Do the admins know anything?


You've got a virus. Please quickly send an email to everyone on the list
instructing them *not* to open the attachment!!

Jeff Nadler
Silver Ridge Consulting Group, Inc.
Portland, OR


> Dear user of "Realbeer.com" mailing system,
>
> 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.
>
> Pay attention on attached file.
>
> Sincerely,
> The Realbeer.com team
> http://www.realbeer.com

I received 2 in less than an hour saying the exact same thing.

Thanks,
Bill

[hopjack13]

i got an amish virus once, it said that sense they didn't use electricity i had to delete my own hard drive and what not :rolleyes:
oh , and no , i didn't get anything like that???? i wonder wtf ?

[MARK123]

I have not gotten that one..But did get 1 that tore my hard drive up...I would reccomend everyone use these spyware downloads for free...
http://www.download.com/3000-8022-10289035.html?tag=lst-0-2

http://www.download.com/3000-2144-10045910.html?part=69274&subj=dlpage&tag=button


http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/catalog/products/sku_list_za.jsp

[brewmonkey]

This is not something I am aware of. You should always be cautious when you recieve crap like this and do exactly what you did, bring it to someones attention. Stan may be better able to explain it, so I will point him in this direction.

[HerFTyDrF]

I got the same thing, only once tho.

[fretlessman71]

Three posts and you got a virus message? What gives?

And who's to say your screen name isn't the name of YOUR new virus..... which you are planning to unleash upon the world!!!!!!!!!;)

[batkins]

Later, I got the same email...........but from another source. Instead of realbeer.com at the bottom, this one said something else........I forget the site now.

[fretlessman71]

Whatever you do, don't go NEAR that attachment with a 10 foot pole!

[batkins]

Crazy thing is............there was no attachment included in the email.....................at least none I could find.

[chazwicke]

Weird! I've gotten fraudulent attempts to get my Ebay info before but nothing like what you received.

[HarkJohnny]

I've never had a virus, trojan, spyware, adware etc... and I don't EVER get pop ups. nor do i ever expect to have any of the above.

think different.
:D

[BrewDog]

Hark-

You only THINK you are safe. The reality is that there are just as many holes in the Mac OS as there are in Windows, if not more. The difference is that the hackers tend to ignore them because there are so few targets of opportunity. Similarly, Linux users think they are safe. They are not. There have been more Linux security alerts over the last 2 years than Windows alerts. Once again, the numbers of users (especially those that don't patch regularly) are the only differentiator. I can vouch for the fact that Microsoft pays an incredible amount of attention to security (much more than any of you would believe). XP SP2 will be a huge step up in security. Longhorn will be even more so.

Steve

[fretlessman71]

Originally posted by brewmonkey
This is not something I am aware of. You should always be cautious when you recieve crap like this and do exactly what you did, bring it to someones attention. Stan may be better able to explain it, so I will point him in this direction.
You gotten ahold of Stan yet? Why do I feel like I ought to be concerned.....

[skahtboi]

Originally posted by MARK123
I have not gotten that one..But did get 1 that tore my hard drive up...I would reccomend everyone use these spyware downloads for free...
http://www.download.com/3000-8022-10289035.html?tag=lst-0-2

http://www.download.com/3000-2144-10045910.html?part=69274&subj=dlpage&tag=button


http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/catalog/products/sku_list_za.jsp

I have found that Spy Hunter from Enigma software is an even better deal. It found spyware on my system that neither SpyBot or AdAware found. It does cost a minimal $29.95 USD, but is worth it as it has upgradable definitions and software feature, plus allows you to get other Enigma software free.

[brewmonkey]

Originally posted by fretlessman71
You gotten ahold of Stan yet? Why do I feel like I ought to be concerned.....

I did email him but have not heard back from him.

[fretlessman71]

I know this thread has been two months dormant, but what gives? Anyone know anything?

[chazwicke]

Originally posted by MARK123
I have not gotten that one..But did get 1 that tore my hard drive up...I would reccomend everyone use these spyware downloads for free...
http://www.download.com/3000-8022-10289035.html?tag=lst-0-2

http://www.download.com/3000-2144-10045910.html?part=69274&subj=dlpage&tag=button


http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/catalog/products/sku_list_za.jsp

I regularly use the first two recommended above. My IT guy recommended them both. They work well. You will not believe all the spyware that is out there and on your computer.

[Stahlsturm]

*shrugs*
I get messages like that every day. Not from this site (yet) but from pretty much all over the rest of the internet. The sorry fool to click on the attachment will install a trojan on his computer that´ll spy out your bank and CC data and help whoever wrote this thing to cleanse off your finances and procreate the virus to every e-mail addy on your computers HD.

Not clicking on anything that´s not clearly addressed to yourself helps a great deal. I´ve always found all this spyware and virus scans to be a pain in the butt because you need to update it 5 times a day to be really safe so what I do is run a firewall that controls exactly what´s going in and out through my network.

That way I immediately know when something I don´t want running is trying to connect to the outside World or if someone from outside is trying to break in. It´s a pretty handy tool and I´ve been problem free since 1999.

[corysdad]

On this subject, my Norton anti-virus detected 3 trojans when I linked to the beerdate.com website thru a thread at RB. Don't think that my machine was infected, I located and deleted the infected files. I discussed this with IT guy at work and he thought that they should not be a problem now. Has anyone else used that link? If not, DON'T!!!...

[fretlessman71]

I've used it several times, and yes, I've been having a few problems of late, but I went there a couple of times in the last week and no problems. Maybe the webmaster has been chasing them down on his end....?

[aquitana]

Originally posted by BrewDog
Hark-

You only THINK you are safe. The reality is that there are just as many holes in the Mac OS as there are in Windows, if not more. The difference is that the hackers tend to ignore them because there are so few targets of opportunity. Similarly, Linux users think they are safe. They are not. There have been more Linux security alerts over the last 2 years than Windows alerts. Once again, the numbers of users (especially those that don't patch regularly) are the only differentiator. I can vouch for the fact that Microsoft pays an incredible amount of attention to security (much more than any of you would believe). XP SP2 will be a huge step up in security. Longhorn will be even more so.

Steve

your joking right????

please tell me you don't believe all the crap bill gates tells you--how secure winblows is and how full of holes mac osX is????

give me friggin' break.......i could pour a beer on my mac and it would probably still work better than the crap you got from dell, hp, gateway, sony, toshiba........pick one, they are all the same

[chazwicke]

Nice Hamm's bear avatar!

[aquitana]

Ahhhh.....Hamms. the first beer i ever drank. got to love after school let's steal my dad's beer party's......those where the days.

[chazwicke]

Hamm's actually brewed in Baltimore for a short time in the late 50s and early 60s. I was very young but can remember some of their commercials. The slogan "From the land of sky blue waters" apparently did not sell well in the Chesapeake region. National beer had a jingle that I remember where they sang "National Beer. National Beer. You'll love the taste of National Beer. It's From the land of pleasant living we bring you National Beer." National, also brewed in Baltimore, had cartoon figures in their ads and also produced a can featuring them. I believe that Hamms bought out the old Gunther brewery and that was where they brewed in Baltimore. Carling Black Label was also produced in Baltimore during that era and I remember their jingle too. Sheesh! I'm old!

[aquitana]

Hamm's Beer Bear
- Paunchy animated mascot for the Theo. Hamm Brewing Company spot that ran as a sequel to a Hamm's commercial that featured beavers beating on tom-toms._ Introduced in a regional Midwest TV spot, the Bear first appeared in a 1952 black-and-white commercial entitled "Bear Beer" that combined live-action and animation. The ad spot used the Hamm's tagline "Yes, from the Land of Sky Blue Waters, to you...comes Hamm's; the beer refreshing as the crisp, cool land it's brewed in, the beer that captures for you the wonderful refreshment of this enchanted Northland." Throughout all his commercials, the friendly Hamm's Bear danced and jumped and bounced around, but never in any of his spots did he speak (In the mid 1960s he said one-line "It bears repeating"). The book The Paws of Refreshment: The Story of Hamm's Beer Advertising (Pogo Press, 1990) chronicled the bear's rocky history who hailed "from the land of sky blue waters." Sasha the Bear (trained by Earl Hammond) appeared in a number of Hamm's commercials. The Campbell-Mithun advertising agency created the first Hamm's Bear ad campaign._ In 2000, St. Paul's Pioneer Press named the bear as a runner-up on its list of "150 Influential Minnesotans of the Past 150 Years." TRIVIA NOTE: The words from the Hamm's Beer Theme "From The Land of Skye-Blue Water" were from a 1909 poem by Charles Wakefield Cadma (c) 1937 by Edwin H. Morris & Company. The theme music by Nelle Richmond Eberhart.


"From the Land of Sky Blue Waters (Waters),
_ From the land of pines, lofty balsam,
_ Comes the beer refreshing,
_ Hamm's the Beer Refreshing".