UPS EMAIL VIRUS

If you receive an email supposedly from UPS about a missed delivery DON'T OPEN IT. It is a very nasty virus which can potentially download all of your personal data, passwords, bank details etc. and my PC is out of action because of it.

MooVision will more than likely be canceled this week because of it!

Thanks for the heads up on that Anne
I also got the same warning as Sue
the other day, I had been on the
CC website but I had a few browsers
open so I dont know where it come from
, I know I definately had not opened any
emails, so where it come from I dont know

Jayne

OH dear i hope you get it sorted soon, ived heard of that one before but from a diffreant company. Thanks for the warning Anne.

Thanks Anne will keep an eye open for that
Hope you get your computer sorted soon
Darned viruses

Dang I had heard but thought it was another of those hoax emails, you get so many distributed around these days. Crux of it is I ignore it, but I have to admit to not opening any emails from unknown addresses. Hope its sorted for you soon Ann.

Jenny M wrote:Dang I had heard but thought it was another of those hoax emails, you get so many distributed around these days. Crux of it is I ignore it, but I have to admit to not opening any emails from unknown addresses. Hope its sorted for you soon Ann.

Snap but the send from address looked legit, I even detached the attachment and scanned it with the anti-virus before I opened it but it didn't show up anything

/hugs

Well I've used two different virus checkers and a spyware checker and got no virus thank goodness. Didn't think I would have as they run in the background all the time and I've had no dodgy emails.

The message about scripts I only get on Craft Cow site so do hope you haven't got a problem with website Anne. While I was browsing Google about viruses I found this on AVG site:
"An exploit is a piece of malware – in this case a rootkit - that takes advantage of a newly-announced or otherwise unpatched vulnerability. These vulnerabilities are most often found in operating systems, browsers, and other applications that routinely connect to the web, like media players and PDF readers.

Exploits can be hidden on any kind of web page – recent victims include Alicia Keys’ MySpace page and the Major League Baseball (MLB.com) site. They are usually delivered as a drive-by download which – as its name implies – happens invisibly, without your knowledge."

A bit worrying!!

I also use Mcafee Site Advisor which tells you if any sites are dodgy before you go on them but maybe it doesn't pick these threats up.

Hi Sue

I think the two things are unrelated. There is/was a problem with the website showing that message, I'm waiting to hear back from the techy guys, they say it's most probably where I've not deleted something fully so half of a command is trying to run.

I too have all the virus checkers going but they don't pick this one up! I looked on a couple of techy blogs about this particular virus and not one of the virus checkers tested (10 in total) picked it up! I contacted AVG and told them I had this virus and asked how could I get rid of it (Monday), got a reply back today suggesting I ran my anti-virus software. I sent a rather snotty mail back starting off "Wow! I never thought of doing that...."

As this isn't sorted out I am definitely canceling MooVision this week.

Hi Anne, tried shop site again and it's now fine. Interestingly though the cow cursor didn't come up. Looks like your techy guys have sorted it whatever it was.

How did you know you had a virus if the software wasn't picking it up?

I guessed when I opened the attachment (after I had detached it and scanned it first!) and nothing happened. When I opened my PC up next time I got the blue screen so I rebooted and then it opened but Windows didn't load, I had to start Windows through the task manager. I was then able to run the anti-virus which picked up nothing

Aaaahhh