Original Posted By: "rob"
DNA: not not archiveSubject: Pietenpol-List: [PLEASE READ] Virus Laden Spam Purports To Be From Matronics...Dear Listers,First let me say that I normally don't condone the sharing of warningsabout Internet viruses on the Matronics Email Lists. I don't want tostart a storm of discussion regarding computer viruses on the Lists, soplease just note the information below and refrain from commenting tothe List. The circumstances I describe below are disturbing enoughthat I felt an explanation is necessary. That being said...There is a new email-bourne virus running rampant on the Internet thatis cleverly disguising itself as legitimate email warning of suchthings as: "your email account is disabled because of unauthorized access" "Some of our clients complained about the spam (negative e-mail content) outgoing from your e-mail account" "Probably, you have been infected by a proxy-relay trojan server. In order to keep your computer safe, follow the instructions." "Our main mailing server will be temporary unavailable for next two days, to continue receiving mail in these days you have to configure our free auto-forwarding service."All of these messages include an attachment that you are instructed toclick upon to "Get more information", "clean the virus from yoursystem", or "check your system for infections".These enclosures all contain a virus that will infect your system andpropagate even more copies of the original message.The disturbing part of these messages is that they appear to be comingfrom very legitimate addresses and have very legitimate, convincingdialog. For example, I have received a number of them today thatappear to be from "support(at)matronics.com", "management(at)matronics.com","administration(at)matronics.com", and "staff(at)matronics.com".The text of the messages seems believable enough, and given the forgedsource address, seem even more legitimate.Please be assured that no one at Matronics.com will be sending youthese kinds of messages. If you receive one, it is a spam/virus thathas forged headers and was sent to you from someone other thanMatronics. Delete the message and the attachment promptly. Invest ina copy of Norton Antivirus and keep the definitions up dated on a dailybasis. Again, I want to stress that I *DO NOT* want a big discussion ofviruses on the Matronics Email Lists. Please do not reply to thisemail with any comments. You may write to me directly atdralle(at)matronics.com if you wish, but do not include the List.Since many of these appear to come from matronics.com, I wanted toassure everyone that Matronics wasn't the real source of these messages.Let's be careful out there and keep those virus definitions up to date!Today alone, the Matronics spam filter and virus blocking appliancehas filtered out 11,550 spam messages and 375 viruses! That's just inan 18 hour period!Best regards,Matt DralleMatronics Email List Administrator-- Matt G. Dralle | Matronics | P.O. Box 347 | Livermore | CA | 94551925-606-1001 Voice | 925-606-6281 FAX | dralle(at)matronics.com Emailhttp://www.matronics.com/ W.W.W. | Featuring Products For Aircraft________________________________________________________________________________