Gold Fish Email

Timelessblurr · Post by **Timelessblurr** » Mon Dec 23, 2002 10:32 pm

Ok I been getting this in my inbox a lot

Subject: goldfish
Hi Dear
Check the attach
See u

.
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Enjoy the attachement

I have yet to even open the attachement in fear of it being a virus. So far I had delet 10 of the emails since they started last week.

Ok I figure I warn you all not to open any email with subjuct goldfish. send out some email when it open. I learned this when I got back about 20 return emails saying they could not be deliverd.

the email address thay have been coming from are

royi@yam.com
contact_2010@yahoo.com
royi_666@yahoo.com.tw

the attatch file is about 40k and you all may feel free to spam those address if you want I do not care

Roke · Post by **Roke** » Mon Dec 23, 2002 10:33 pm

Then don't open it! It really sounds like a virus, if they all say the same thing!

Timelessblurr · Post by **Timelessblurr** » Mon Dec 23, 2002 10:35 pm

I open the first email to look at it never got dl the attact ment. but I firgire out the other email part a few days letter. NO OPEN THE GOLD FISH EMAIL JUST DELET IT

§_Akuma_§ · Post by **§_Akuma_§** » Mon Dec 23, 2002 11:38 pm

alright, ill have to let my family know about this little virus (if it is one but im not taking that chance) thanx alot ^_^

dokidoki · Post by **dokidoki** » Mon Dec 23, 2002 11:56 pm

I don't click on executable attachments (and I don't run Outlook, so the viruses can't exploit its security holes), but when I get something suspicious, I search Google for any included text to see what the virus of the month is.

This one seems to be W32.Yaha.E@mm
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/av ... .e@mm.html

Anime Jedi · Post by **Anime Jedi** » Tue Dec 24, 2002 1:36 am

Oh man! I remember that! Don't remind me!

I use to get so many of those e-mails it wasn't even funny! Weird thing about it was that they came from the e-mail addresses of some of my friends. I was like: why are you sending this to me? And they were like: what are you talking about?. Problem was they also kept coming from new addresses! So I slowly blocked on by one, unless it was friend, and they stopped!

Bad, bad memories!

Dannywilson · Post by **Dannywilson** » Tue Dec 24, 2002 1:51 am

Dannywilson in a similar thread wrote:Ok. Just a little explanation of how the klez and most modern virii work. It enters the affected persons comp, (By their own stupidity mind you. Ie opening attachments without scanning them and whatnot) it then searches their computer for email addresses in the outlook history and addy book, it then looks for them in the Explorer history and temp files directory. It takes random person A's addy, and sends a message with a copy of itself to random person B. meanwhile the original infected computer C has no idea this is happening. It repeats this process at random intervals with random addresses from the infected computer, or for even more fun, it makes the "From" addresses up using info it gathers, Ie: "Webmaster@yahoo.com", or "Services@animemusicvideos.org". These factors make it a very smart little piece of malicious programming, and very hard to track. It can even fiddle with your virus protection, so if you get a virus scanner after the fact, it can screw with it to make itself invisible to it.

There is this little option in Outlook that lets you disable opening of any attachments, if you haven't turned this on DO IT NOW. In addition, there is another option to not show any messages as html, and show them as formatted text, TURN THIS ON. This will rectify those problems.