Sunday, 30 December 2007

Spam Analysis

Am getting the latest barrage of spam emails. While I'm sure there are a number of well wishers towards me, somehow the title of "Happy New Year to [my email]" raises my suspicions flags. Getting them from random eddresses, and the body is:

Happy 2008 To You!
http://family postcards 2008 . com/

(spaces inserted to saw "screw you".)

Looking at the page (via Lynx, a text-based browser that doesn't automatically screw your computer), the page wants to download a piece of software "fck2008.exe" (or "fck2009.exe").

Definitely trying to fck my computer, but it looks like this is the latest Storm Worm virus.

At least this is a slight cut above "g3t BIGGER p 3 n 1 s nOw!"

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6 comments:

  1. Anonymous30 December 2007 at 17:42:00 GMT+13

    Thank you for this blog. I got one email coming into my AOL email SPAM folder. I was curious to see if it was someone I knew in the past sending the greetings to me.
    I am glad that I didnt open it.

    :)
    JM

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  2. Jamas Enright30 December 2007 at 18:49:00 GMT+13

    Thanks JM! When spam comes, it's often in waves, and I got many of these, so that was a big clue.

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  3. Anonymous31 December 2007 at 01:32:00 GMT+13

    Wait.

    Do you mean those "g3t BIGGER p 3 n 1 s nOw!" emails aren't true?

    Next you'll be trying to tell me that $oft C1@li!$$ and Ger!n!c VAlggEr@ don't work.

    Sigh...I had such ~BIG~ hopes!

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  4. Jamas Enright31 December 2007 at 08:45:00 GMT+13

    Have to admit I haven't tried it yet. I'm just waiting for my money from the Nigerian prince to come through...

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  5. Anonymous31 December 2007 at 23:07:00 GMT+13

    see also:
    http://spamtrackers.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Storm#December_29

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  6. Jamas Enright1 January 2008 at 09:23:00 GMT+13

    Thanks! Useful link!

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