pascalneder009 Posted April 12, 2004 Share Posted April 12, 2004 Today I checked my e-mail and found this Subject:Virus Alert [Encrypted document] User phantomboi06@yahoo.com tried to send you a message containing the Win32/Bagle.O.ZIP.Worm virus. Subject:Virus Alert [Forum notify] User phantomboi06@yahoo.com tried to send you a message containing the Win32/Bagle.N.Worm virus. Who this mother****er is I don't know but i know he's from this forums because i read the phantomboi06@yahoo.com somewhere here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gameunlimited Posted April 12, 2004 Share Posted April 12, 2004 I doubt someone who sends viruses will use his real email address as the "address from". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pascalneder009 Posted April 12, 2004 Author Share Posted April 12, 2004 he thought that if i opened it that my comp. screws up and that i never knew who did it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T7nowhere Posted April 12, 2004 Share Posted April 12, 2004 Well at least you caught it before it did any damage. Although it is disturbing if it was a user from this forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pascalneder009 Posted April 12, 2004 Author Share Posted April 12, 2004 Ey t7 since you are the moderator where are the points for in this Status: Moderator Registered: Jan 2004 Location: Posts: 514 Points: 0 This are your records but where is the points for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tk102 Posted April 12, 2004 Share Posted April 12, 2004 There are many email virii out that spoof the email addresses of people found in address books. So that email address was probably in an infected person's address book and has no idea that the virus is using his name. In fact he's probably getting emails from servers that are bouncing back "his" email because it contains a virus. I know I get about 4-5 of those per day into my yahoo mail account. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackel Posted April 13, 2004 Share Posted April 13, 2004 also the other favourite one is to use a scanning program and "steal" email addresses from things like IRC and websites , and the fact so many people have been placing their emails in some of the threads here makes for easy grabbing thats why if i put my email somewhere like here i put myemailname_removethis_at_yahoo.co.removethisalso.nz ... ps my email is myemailname@ etc etc , i just put that there instead of the name of my email Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pascalneder009 Posted April 13, 2004 Author Share Posted April 13, 2004 Yet another one Subject:Virus Alert [Warning about your e-mail account.] User phantomboi06@yahoo.com tried to send you a message containing the Win32/Bagle.N.Worm virus. Damn im happy with my mail scanner:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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