Guest guest Posted April 1, 2009 Report Share Posted April 1, 2009 GULP so far (she says with fingers crossed) I have NOT received one...... I don't want one. Lets see what happens now. Clare in Tassie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 1, 2009 Report Share Posted April 1, 2009 ok I got one... now I will BLOCK THEM and report it as spam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 1, 2009 Report Share Posted April 1, 2009 I have added mailserver to my BLOCKED list this is the email address which the advertising came from Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 1, 2009 Report Share Posted April 1, 2009 How do you block it? If you click on it to get the email addie ---bingo...so how do you block it? Bea--- On Tue, 3/31/09, Clare@GOOGLE MAIL <theclaremcharris wrote: Clare@GOOGLE MAIL <theclaremcharrisRe: Re: Re: More on 'Conficker' worm Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 11:09 PM ok I got one... now I will BLOCK THEM and report it as spam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 1, 2009 Report Share Posted April 1, 2009 Viviane are you sure your messages didn't get through? My message came through OK and then I got the nonsense Jane - " vlerner2002 " <vivlerner Wednesday, April 01, 2009 4:38 PM Fwd: Re: Re: More on 'Conficker' worm Yes, Hanneke! I just got 2 of them in response to 2 articles I was sending the list [that obviously didn't get there]. No idea of what it's about, but I don't like it, makes me wonder what they are trafficking below the radar.... Not to mention that it'll discourage people from posting. [Maybe this is the goal?] Take care, Viviane ======== Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 1, 2009 Report Share Posted April 1, 2009 Mine just said ' search market'. In any case looks like is in this up to its eyeballs....--- On Tue, 3/31/09, Clare@GOOGLE MAIL <theclaremcharris wrote: Clare@GOOGLE MAIL <theclaremcharrisRe: Re: Re: More on 'Conficker' worm Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 11:14 PM I have added mailserver@overture .com to my BLOCKED list this is the email address which the advertising came from Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 1, 2009 Report Share Posted April 1, 2009 I havent heard of the problem with any other I'm on yet. I got the bs mail only once so far seperate from any other email--on its own. Bea--- On Tue, 3/31/09, Jane MacRoss <highfield1 wrote: Jane MacRoss <highfield1Re: Re: Re: More on 'Conficker' worm Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 11:31 PM Viviane are you sure your messages didn't get through? My message came through OK and then I got the nonsenseJane- "vlerner2002" <vivlerner (AT) gmail (DOT) com><>Wednesday, April 01, 2009 4:38 PMFwd: Re: [Health_and_ Healing] Re: More on 'Conficker' wormYes, Hanneke!I just got 2 of them in response to 2 articles I was sending the list [that obviously didn't get there]. No idea of what it's about, but I don't like it, makes me wonder what they are trafficking below the radar....Not to mention that it'll discourage people from posting. [Maybe this is the goal?]Take care,Viviane======== Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 1, 2009 Report Share Posted April 1, 2009  Bea I set up the GMAIL filter for that specific address mailserver To automatically delete ANY and ALL emails from this address so I should never get another one Clare in Tassie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 1, 2009 Report Share Posted April 1, 2009 Yep I've got it now---I blocked it---but when I got back to my mail---there was one in my inbox---not sure if it got there before or after... another funny thing is that it changes the font style after you paste it and write after it it's definitely part of some virus.... countdown....--- On Tue, 3/31/09, Clare@GOOGLE MAIL <theclaremcharris wrote: Clare@GOOGLE MAIL <theclaremcharrisRe: Re: Re: More on 'Conficker' worm Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 11:45 PM  Bea I set up the GMAIL filter for that specific address mailserver@overture .com To automatically delete ANY and ALL emails from this address so I should never get another one Clare in Tassie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 1, 2009 Report Share Posted April 1, 2009  In O:E Go to 'message' at the top of the screen - go to "Create Message Rule from Message" and just get O:E to send it straight to the delete folder HTH Jane - Bea Bernhausen Wednesday, April 01, 2009 5:30 PM Re: Re: Re: More on 'Conficker' worm How do you block it? If you click on it to get the email addie ---bingo...so how do you block it? Bea--- On Tue, 3/31/09, Clare@GOOGLE MAIL <theclaremcharris wrote: Clare@GOOGLE MAIL <theclaremcharrisRe: Re: Re: More on 'Conficker' worm Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 11:09 PM ok I got one... now I will BLOCK THEM and report it as spam Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.238 / Virus Database: 270.11.35/2033 - Release 03/31/09 13:05:00 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 1, 2009 Report Share Posted April 1, 2009 yep got it thanks---its in the From section anyway---just a lil cornfuzzled tonight...--- On Wed, 4/1/09, Jane MacRoss <highfield1 wrote: Jane MacRoss <highfield1Re: Re: Re: More on 'Conficker' worm Date: Wednesday, April 1, 2009, 12:06 AM  In O:E Go to 'message' at the top of the screen - go to "Create Message Rule from Message" and just get O:E to send it straight to the delete folder HTH Jane - Bea Bernhausen Wednesday, April 01, 2009 5:30 PM Re: Re: [Health_and_ Healing] Re: More on 'Conficker' worm How do you block it? If you click on it to get the email addie ---bingo...so how do you block it? Bea--- On Tue, 3/31/09, Clare@GOOGLE MAIL <theclaremcharris@ gmail.com> wrote: Clare@GOOGLE MAIL <theclaremcharris@ gmail.com>Re: Re: [Health_and_ Healing] Re: More on 'Conficker' wormTuesday, March 31, 2009, 11:09 PM ok I got one... now I will BLOCK THEM and report it as spam Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.238 / Virus Database: 270.11.35/2033 - Release 03/31/09 13:05:00 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 1, 2009 Report Share Posted April 1, 2009  'Conficker' Worm Wakes Up, But It's Quiet http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2344198,00.asp The "Conficker" worm is live within Australia and elsewhere in the world, security vendors have confirmed, where it is April 1. At this point, however, it remains quiescent. Security company Trend Micro has seen the Conficker or Downadup worm increase the number of DNS resolutions, as expected, said Paul Ferguson, the lead researcher for security intelligence, advanced threats research. At this point, however, the worm has taken no other action. Conficker is expected to hit the United States on Wednesday, April 1. But it is already a day ahead across the international date line, where Conficker is waking up, and making its way westward through Asia and Europe. In recent days, the prevailing attitude toward Conficker has turned away from a threat that could wreak havoc upon the Internet, more toward an event that needs to be closely monitored, but not necessarily feared. In part, that's because a signature has been identified and a scanner developed. Security analysts have also developed a list of actions to take to mitigate the effects of Conficker and similar worms. Conficker preys upon a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows that was patched in October, although the worm does take a number of actions to try and shut down antivirus programs and prevent them from updating. The Apple Macintosh OS X operating system is completely immune. So far, however, Conficker has laid low. "We've seen some host resolution in our honeypot systems, they're doing that," Ferguson said. "But aside from doing the expected DNS resolution, we haven't really seen anything else." A spokesman from Symantec also said that the company's researchers haven't noted any malicious activity. "Most regions have already woken up to April 1 and Symantec Security Response experts have not detected any additional activities but are continuing to monitor for any new activities and will provide updates as they become available," he said in an update Tuesday night. "Keep in mind that these systems could be updated on any date after April 1." "McAfee Avert Labs has been closely monitoring Conficker-related threats and, we haven't observed any significant activities on the domains that it is polling for thus far," researcher Shinsuke Honjo wrote in a McAfee/Avert blog post. "Daniel," a security analyst with Australia's National Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT) also reported a quiet day. "So far the worm has activated as expected - making DNS requests to the generated lists of domains," he wrote in an email. "Beyond that, however, there have yet to be any reports of a succesful download/secondary activation." That might be because of the low number of infections in Australia, AusCERT noted in a separate post. On April 1, according to security researchers, Conficker is scheduled to determine the local time, about once every 24 hours, to determine if it is in fact April 1 or later. At that time, the worm begins to generate a list of 50,000 domains, of which it checks about 500 or so for what researchers assume to be a digitally signed payload. What that payload is or what it will order the Conficker machines to do is unknown. "The most commonly accepted thinking is that this is nothing more than just an effort to build survivability into the system," Ferguson said. So what is Conficker? At this point, no one knows. But more and more researchers seem to be thinking that the number of infected Conficker machines will turn out to be a botnet, that can be ordered to attack servers or networks owned by governments or enterprises. "I think it's just the Storm guys trying to build a bullet-proof botnet," said Roger Thompson, the chief research officer of AVG Technologies, in an instant-message conversation. "I always thought it was a corp/gov/edu problem." Ferguson also worried that the Conficker hullabaloo might distract from other, equally nefarious activities going on behind the Conficker smokescreen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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