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I got the following e-mail in my Yahoo account from "Yahoo Member Support" with an enclosure attached.

"Dear Yahoo 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 Yahoo Support Team"

Got another one from "admin@yahoo.com" this AM with subject "Your password has been updated" and an enclosure.
Checked a broadband security site on this and they say these types of e-mails contain the virus "W32.Sober.I@mm" which is very destructive.
Gary U


<font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p align="center">[This message was edited by Gary Ulinskas on 30 June 2005 at 02:53 AM.]</p></FONT>

This is an example of Social Engineering to trick people into opening an attachment and installing a virus. It has a lot of success among the newbies in the Inet community.

Wiz

I got these this week from my ISP (or so it said) - The only place (other than friends) that has this current email address is the forum, so I am afraid that it is being used to send this rubbish out. I have had three now all similar asking me to open a zip file and respond. Am I that stupid?

However B0B I would ask whether there is any way that this can be tightened up via your bulletin board program?

Colin,
I'd be interested to know if your friends (who aren't Forum members) get them.

Ask them and let us know.

My wife has a seperate email address and she gets more crap email than I do.

<font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p align="center">[This message was edited by Joey Ace on 30 June 2005 at 04:04 PM.]</p></FONT>

Hi Joey

No - my friends did not get them.

I use Zonealarm, Grisoft, Mailwasher to provide me with a level of security plus I DO NOT use IEx. So there is no way that the spam could have come via my own PC

I have now changed my forum email address to that which I have used for all other "public" type matters. That ISP has its own spam blockers.

No damage caused here because I am too old in the tooth to be caught, but newer computer users could well be fooled. Just wastes a lot of time.

I get the same ones from Adelphia. They're spam generators.

Watch for the ones that include .zip files - those are viruses. I warned my wife not to touch those, but she opoened one.

Good thing we have virus protection. It tried to hijack her machine, but got nabbed.