[Groop] E-mail account disabling warning. VIRUS

[Scott]

The beagle and other viruses that attack Outlook just send to the address book
or to any email addresses they can find in your mailboxes... sometimes all they
need is the @domain.com part and they randomly fill in the 1st part.

Friday, March 19, 2004, 8:14:08 PM, you wrote:

> Thanks for the added warnings, Scott

> Yup, Virus writers are 'evolving', too.
> Always regard such odd items with suspicion

> - It *is* troubling to see the ease with which they 'sniffed' our emails
> from the list []or did they get into the list servers...?]

> - I hope there is a way to cut/garble all emails in the openly-available
> archives; I was frankly wondering why we didn't get a lot more spam and this
> kind of gunk through that open door....



> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Scott" <scott at knyght.net>
> To: <groop at groo.com>
> Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 3:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [Groop] E-mail account disabling warning. VIRUS


>> THIS IS A VIRUS!!!!
>>
>> looks like another pass of the same virus.  The password protected zip
> files
>> shields the virus from virus scanners.  DO NOT OPEN!!
>>
>> If you have other email accounts, then expect to see it come thru there:
>>    Dear users of AOL  - signed AOL team
>>    Dear users of yahoo.com  - signed yahoo.com team
>>    Dear users of earthlink.com  - signed earthlink.com team
>>    Dear users of %variable%  - signed %variable% team
>>
>> Friday, March 19, 2004, 2:35:36 PM, you wrote:
>>
>> > Dear user of Groo.com,
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> > Further details can be obtained from  attached file.
>>
>> > For security  reasons attached file  is password protected.  The
> password  is  "70623".
>>
>> > Best wishes,
>> >     The Groo.com  team                             http://www.groo.com
>>
>>
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