Email Recieved from AdTrader.co.uk

[roybert]

Just incase any of you lads deal with them and have not recieved an email from them, this is it.

Roy


Virus Alert!
Virus alert warning to our members
AdTrader.co.uk wishes to warn our customers about a mass e-mailing VIRUS THREAT, masquerading as originating from an official AdTrader.co.uk source.

The message, usually with the subject line \"Account Alert,\" appears to come from security@adtrader.co.uk, and warns that \"you will have to confirm your e-mail\" by clicking on an AdTrader web link. The Web link DOES NOT POINT to an AdTrader.co.uk source. Instead, it connects to a site that will download and install malicious code.

Please do not click on this link. AdTrader.co.uk would like to stress that our customers would never be asked to confirm their address or asked for their password in an email. If you receive this fake email please do nothing with it and delete it immediately.


Please do not reply directly to this email.

Adtrader.co.uk recommends that our users ensure their anti-virus software is running and up-to date. If you are in any doubt about an email that has been sent to you please call our helpdesk on 0870 240 4343 between 8 am and 10pm Monday to Friday, and 9am to 5.30pm weekends.




[Edited on 15/12/2005 by roybert]

[BriH]

Ta - Suprised wor lot at Head Office have missed this one

All at Christmas party`s me thinks :P :P

[elton]

I get hundreds of those a day. Weird thing is, they even use my own domains - i.e. I get them from service@nesa.co.uk etc

Absolute pain in the arse, as many people think they actually come from the address shown on them

[mark]

its dead easier to spoof the sender address in an email, if in doubt view the raw source of the email/email headers. you\'ll see the all the nerdy stuff that an email needs including the server address that sent it, and its IP address. If you want to start prodding a bit further back to find guilty parties, take that server name and or IP to somewhere like http://dnsstuff.com and do a reverse search and you\'ll get a heap more information and so on and so forth.

that said, some viruses, if written propeprly, will actually propogate themselves onto your isp\'s server, so it would genuinely look like you had sent it to someone.

give it another year or 2 and you\'ll all be using the Mac OS! - honest.....big merger rumours are flying at the mo....microsoft are getting twitchy already, no viruses and no spyware - not ever, and stuff just works!

[Charlie_Thompson]

PC for sale 4p

or swap for mac

[mark]

make it 3p, a bottle of cider, and unfettered access to your gerbil and I\'ll consider it

[Charlie_Thompson]

My gerbils are always fettered, 10lb amnesia connected to a 3z drilled bullet, snap link through the nostril for quick release

[Marc]

give it another year or 2 and you\'ll all be using the Mac OS! - honest.....big merger rumors are flying at the mo....microsoft are getting twitchy already, no viruses and no spyware - not ever, and stuff just works!

Am fully mac\'d up already as you know, four windoes machines gone and replaced with OS X.

Can\'t remember the last time they were turned off, left on 24 hours a day, Kids still go on to the same sites as they used to but have NEVER picked up or downloaded something that shouldn\'t be there. It\'s great when a email arrives that has a virus attached, I just open it and it spits it back out . No hang ups, no control alt delete, just works.

I\'ve still got 1 windows machine left, just for running publisher cos I\'m crap at designing stuff and can\'t work photoshop properly yet, working fine though cos it has no net connection.

If these rumors are true, hackers and virus writers will have to find something else to occupy their tiny little minds.