Virus? From the CIA !!!!

[cashgirl]

:xmasd2: I RECEIVED THIS E-MAIL TODAY AND IT COMES WITH AN ATTACHMENT (LIST.ZIP) I'M PRETTY SURE I HAVE NOT BEEN TO ANY ILLEGAL WEBSITES!
I WAS WONDERING IF YOR GUYS THINK THIS E-MAIL ATTACHMENT MIGHT BE LOADED WITH A VIRUS. BECAUSE I HAVE BEEN GETTING ALLOT OF E-MAILS THAT HAVE ATTACHMENTS. MOST OF THEM WERE UNDELIVERABLE BECAUSE THEY WERE DETECTED HAVING VIRUSES.WELL HERE IT IS :star:

Dear Sir/Madam,

we have logged your IP-address on more than 30 illegal Websites.

Important:
Please answer our questions!
The list of questions are attached.

Yours faithfully,
Steven Allison

++++ Central Intelligence Agency -CIA-
++++ Office of Public Affairs
++++ Washington, D.C. 20505

++++ phone: (703) 482-0623
++++ 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., US Eastern time

THIS ATTACHMENT IS VERY TEMPTING! I KNOW IT COMES WITH A PHONE NUMBER BUT WHO KNOWS IT MAY BE A FAKE NUMBER!!
PLEASE LET ME KNOW! THANKS

[Chicken]

My guess would be that the CIA wouldn't email you asking them to call them. I'd just delete it and move on.

Also please note (see attachment)...

[Equonix]

haha nice attachment. Check to see where the IP Address is coming from it's probably from another country. We get fake paypal ones all the time.

[kris1351]

Its a worm mailer, check over on www.symantec.com I think they have it listed. It's been around for a couple of weeks now.

[SergioC]

If you antivirus didn't detect it, then you probably now are infected.

Try to do an online scan, go to:
http://housecall.antivirus.com
and use the SCAN ALL option. It is free, and will check how is computer.

Regards,
- Sergio

[Chicken]

Yeah I think a filter actually snagged one of them for an account I ahve. OP stated that, "MOST OF THEM WERE UNDELIVERABLE BECAUSE THEY WERE DETECTED HAVING VIRUSES" so that probably means they were filtered for her too (thus, not infected). Never hurts to do a scan though, so the advice is still valid.

[Dexxa]

hehe i got that one too, with diffrent email addresses

thats why the delete butten is always a good feature :bowdown:

[cashgirl]

Thank you, I did delete this e-mail. I did a yahoo search of the phone number and found that I wasn't the only one who has been getting e-mails from the CIA- FBI. I'm pretty sure it contained some kind of worm.
:banghead: cashgirl

[AdosHost]

haha nice attachment. Check to see where the IP Address is coming from it's probably from another country. We get fake paypal ones all the time.

Paypal & Ebay fake e-mails are so common and annoying arghh ..

[SergioC]

This email comes with an attachment that contains the virus, so I blocked on the server (email filtering) all the emails that on the "body" appears the following:

Ebay-User_RegC.zip
downloadm.zip
Ebay.zip
Email.zip
Email_text.zip
list.zip
mail.zip
mail_body.zip
mailtext.zip
question_list.zip
reg_pass.zip
reg_pass-data.zip

But I found that some words are the same so I reduced the list to:
downloadm.zip
mail.zip
body.zip
text.zip
list.zip
reg_pass (without zip)
And so far, so good.

Regards,
- Sergio

[hostroyal]

Its not that you have beenon illigal websites. It coule be bost have found your email address and mass email you. I get lots from Nigeria claming millions of $ in a remote account :)

[Equonix]

Its not that you have beenon illigal websites. It coule be bost have found your email address and mass email you. I get lots from Nigeria claming millions of $ in a remote account

Yep we've had our fair share of these. I'm tired of blocking them; but now it appears these messages are coming from @hotmail.com, @netscape.net and @yahoo.com so I just decided to report them... Time to fight fire with fire against Spam :)

[hyipo]

I got a fake FBI email first then a fake CIA email saying I visited illegal websites.

In reality would the FBI and the CIA really do nothing but just send us emails telling us what we did wrong or would they come to the law breakers door and question that person, and family

[Chicken]

What's sad is that if that number above resolves, it probably rings to an old lady who has no idea what the heck people are talking about when they call. I won't try it just in case, heh.

[ServerTweak]

i never see any of this as i'm well protected.

i have a list of programs that may just help you

ok, to better protect yourself from all types of spam, hackers, etc. i put together a list of free programs out there that we all have access :) for your PC

[ Anti Virus ]
1. download the lastest AVG [ http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1 ]. i use avg as it scan all incoming and out going emails plus scans pc. trust me it works :)
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1

[ SpyWare ]
2. download the lastest SpyWare from Microsoft, this program scans and remove any spyware on your pc [ all of them ]
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=321cd7a2-6a57-4c57-a8bd-dbf62eda9671&displaylang=en

[ Firewall ]
3. I like to use ZoneAlarm as you can control all in and out going from your pc. it blocks all the progams trying you send out or in coming trojans
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp?dc=12bms&ctry=US&lang=en

With all the above programs you are 100% protected and free. no need to buy other programs that do the same thing.

Once you install all programs listed above , run scanner for all them :)


enjoy :)

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[HeadNucleon]

i never see any of this as i'm well protected.

i have a list of programs that may just help you

ok, to better protect yourself from all types of spam, hackers, etc. i put together a list of free programs out there that we all have access :) for your PC

[ Anti Virus ]
1. download the lastest AVG [ http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1 ]. i use avg as it scan all incoming and out going emails plus scans pc. trust me it works :)
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1

[ SpyWare ]
2. download the lastest SpyWare from Microsoft, this program scans and remove any spyware on your pc [ all of them ]
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=321cd7a2-6a57-4c57-a8bd-dbf62eda9671&displaylang=en

[ Firewall ]
3. I like to use ZoneAlarm as you can control all in and out going from your pc. it blocks all the progams trying you send out or in coming trojans
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp?dc=12bms&ctry=US&lang=en

With all the above programs you are 100% protected and free. no need to buy other programs that do the same thing.

Once you install all programs listed above , run scanner for all them :)


enjoy :)

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Got a virus...
I used the free trendmicro antifirus. Its not too bad and pretty useful when you are in a jam.

[RazerHost]

Rule number 1!!!

Don't open an attachment from someone you don't know :)

[syborius]

AVG is a good product, I use it and it works like a charm, on such things as email worms as well

[Zeleniak]

Paypal & Ebay fake e-mails are so common and annoying arghh ..


I keep winning the lottery in The UK, Austrilia and other countries everyday. LOL I'm a multi billionaire by now.

[Darkstarx]

AVG is a good product, I use it and it works like a charm, on such things as email worms as well

AntiVir is better, It's succeeded in more VB100 Independant Tests.
www.free-av.com

[Zafar Ahmed]

I keep winning the lottery in The UK, Austrilia and other countries everyday. LOL I'm a multi billionaire by now.

Same here but I'm not sure how do they use emails like ...@paypal.com ?

[ArielHost]

Hard to beat Kaspersky Anti-Virus (http://usa.kaspersky.com/downloads/trial-versions.php?aw=kaspersky) + eWido (http://www.ewido.net/en/) anti-malware (much better spyware remover than Ad-Aware or Spybot).

[Mount1]

Yes, Don't open it, it's a waist of time. I have gotten ones like this, and they end up being deleted by my virus checker.

[tdothost]

Probably a Phishing Email, I get tons of these

[`josh`]

what ppl will do to get virus on ppls computers, faking as a CIA, LOL

[vividkey]

If it were my guess they just copied the information off of the CIA's website because the phone number is from the District of Columbia when I did a reverse phone lookup on it.

[Datawebzone]

Avast is another software to prevent you from Trojan