email crap

[rick]

hey guys some turd is sending stuff using my company name and just sent me one threatening to cut off my services to myself !

it looked like this

Dear Turtlerockmastering Member,

Your e-mail account was used to send a huge amount of unsolicited spam messages during the recent week. If you could please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and confirm the attached document so you will not run into any future problems with the online service.

If you choose to ignore our request, you leave us no choice but to cancel your membership.

Virtually yours,
The Turtlerockmastering Support Team


+++ Attachment: No Virus found
+++ Turtlerockmastering Antivirus - www.turtlerockmastering.com




please ingore this stuff, or if your a computer hacker type, you have my permission to set the dogs on them

- Rick

[Adam Dempsey]

Yep, I received a couple last week like that, from our equivalent "support team"..
I'll never understand that stuff.

[Ausrock]

It may or may not do any good, but I'd suggest contacting your service providers and seeking advice from them.

[Mark Bassett]

Hey all,

I

[Mark Bassett]

Ok, the member list is gone and the board is updated to the latest version as always.

Mark.

[chris p]

Mark, Rick - thanks, and don't sweat it. We've all seen enough to know your styles, and that email came nowhere close. Clodgy buggers, wish they'd get a REAL life.

[JulienG]

Spam's never fun :-(.

But are you able to have the memberlist only viewable to logged in users? That would be nice, it can be a useful tool.

One thing to remember is that e-mail essentially relies on trust. If I claim to be billg@microsoft.com there's very little (until recently) that could be done to stop it. Now there's SPF where the administrator of a domain can say who's allowed to send mail from that domain, and IF the recipient's mail server checks for it the amount of forgeries can be reduced.

[Martinez]

there should be a special punishment for people that make virusus and spyware.
a very f#@%ing harsh one!

I managed to get hijackware on my computer.

man what a headache.

it was damn near impossible to get rid of and kept comming back somehow. :evil:

[Mark Bassett]

The administrators have access to the memberlist, but no one else. The memberlist.php file has been deleted, so robots can't find it.

Technically from a security point of view we shouldn't allow html at all, ever, but we do cause we trust 'yall.

We're working on making people's profiles viewable by members only too.

There's hundreds of mods out there for phpbb, but......you know what, you people need not worry about all this.

[Ausrock]

Martinez,

If by "hijackware", you mean that it was trying to dial/connect to a number other than your nominated ISP phone number then you had a Trojan virus.

They take up residency deep in the Registry files eg: H_KEY/LOCAL COMPUTER/etc., etc. and automatically attempt to change your dial-up/connection details and username as well as attempting to access your password. Usually, they change the phone number to an o/seas number, so if you don't keep an eye on the connection details each time you connect, you can be running up a huge phone bill. This can be corrected by contacting Telstra's billing dept., who from past experience are very familiar with these problems and they are more than happy to "wipe off" any obvious incorrect o/seas calls. Also, according to Telstra, these Trojans frequently come in "waves" which Telstra refer to as "dumpings"

The safest way I found to get rid of them (I've only experienced this once, last week even though I run anti-virus s/ware, firewall, plus anti- spyware utilities, none of which caught this thing), was to contact Microsoft's tech Support who emailed me a "toolkit" with instructions, etc., which with phone support guided me through cleaning out my PC's registry files.

[Martinez]

Well I managed to get rid of it without anyone elses help.

all I did was right click on the conection that it set up,
hit find target,
wrote down its particulars,
found it and deleted it.

it was something like that I can't remember exactly how I did it,
but I finaly got rid of it.

it took me a while to figure it out though.

[Mark Bassett]

and I thought they were called Dialers.

[heathen]

I have norton internet security 2005 it's great.Still not not 100%,but I reckon its the best.Thier website too has top info on manually removing anything that cant be removed on auto,needed it twice to get rid of browser hijackers,though never had a prob since switching to mozilla firefox browser.Also got Lavasoft Ad-Aware (if you don't already know about it) it's free and one of the best,I run it regularly,it gets rid of all sorts of bugs.Everytime I've run it for the first time on a friends sick pc it usually finds hundreds to thousands of registry keys and processes all hiding and taking up cpu power and doing all sorts of rotten things,mainly distributing your private details to who ever wrote it.
I've recieved the emails from Turtlerock as well,now in iggy bin. Now lets all hope that every virus writer out there dies of one themselves.I know thats nasty but when i got the w32 blaster worm in my old pc I could have strangled that young turd who wrote it,but sucked in to him I think he got 20 years in a federal pententiary,ha now who's his mama.

[Kris]

I have a great anti virus system.

It's called an Apple Mac. :P

[heathen]

Whats a mac? Ummmm just kidding,hehe.

[Martinez]

Kris,

can you elabarate?

I'm not a mac user.

[Jason Dirckze]

Kris,

can you elabarate?

I'm not a mac user.

Most Virus are designed to attack windows platform, leaving us cocky Mac users to add another reason to our list of why we are better than those PC using losers

;)

[Kris]

sorry martinez.... i was just being cheeky.

From what I understand, Apple has a team of nerds working on a virus to mess up its O/S but are unable to do it yet. I could be wrong.

Either way..... So far my mac is bulletproof. Most people who like to write viruses seem to only bother with PC based platforms.

Viva la Mac!

[Mark Bassett]

I certainly understand the frustration with viruses, I've been battling with them since my DOS days. But I actually have a lot of respect for anyone that can write a virus - kind of like appreciating the technology and science that went into an a-bomb without supporting nuclear weapons.

I went over to a friends house a few years back to check out some new software he'd 'acquired' and to check out how he'd linked two PC's together (which was cool at the time). Anyway, he shows me a program called ### # which would be firmly in the 'Trojan' family of viruses. This program allowed him to control another person's computer from his own, everything from moving her mouse around in front of her to copying, deleting and overwriting files etc. He'd copied a few files from her hard disk, jpeg photos she's taken of herself using a webcam on top of her computer, no nakedness or anything like that, simple test shots really. So he boasts about how he'd taken these photos off her hard disk and he opens one up and shows me....... It's a photo of my ex-girlfriend.

Anway, Adaware is ok but it can't remove all spyware from your pc cause that would involve removing itself. Trend Micro's and Panda's online virus and spyware scanners are exceptional, they consistently find viruses that Norton misses everytime. Nothing's perfect, that's why I use a few virus scanners in combination. It's also important for your server to scan for potential threats, big we digress.

[Martinez]

well the main thing that keeps me away from the mac thing is the price tag.

unfortunately I haven't got any friends who have one either to have a play.