"Re: Virus Activity Detected!"..? What's this here whoozabobber..?

Monster · Jul 10, 2007

I just opened this suspicious email...?

["Date Mon, 9 Jul 2007 10:18 PM

From "Abuse Team Robot" <eqt@fuse.net>
To occultrush@fastmail.fm
Subject Virus Activity Detected!

Dear Customer,

Our robot has detected an abnormal activity from your IP adress
on sending e-mails. Probably it is connected with the last epidemic
of a worm which does not have official patches at the moment.

We recommend you to install this patch to remove worm files
and stop email sending, otherwise your account will be blocked.

Abuse Team Robot"]...

That's what I got in my inbox..?
Thing is, I haven't sent anymore than about 10-emails in the past three weeks from that email account.. They were all just me forwarding "419" Scams to their providers... And this PC is as clean as it gets...

I'm thinking that this crazy-email is some Intel or corporate bully trying to play-me to install a fistful of their nasty spywares in my PC...
It gives me the feel like if "a swamp leach was asking if it I would help it attach itself to my leg, so it can feed off of my blood"...

Anybody know anything about this here, "eqt@fuse.net" whoozabobber?..

TimW · Jul 10, 2007

Welcome to Majorgeeks!

Yes it could be a scam email notification...however:

Please follow our standard cleaning procedures which are necessary for us to provide you support. Also there are steps included for installing, running, and posting HijackThis logs as attachments.

Run ALL the steps in this Sticky thread READ & RUN ME FIRST Before Asking for Support

Make sure you check version numbers and get all updates.

Very Important: Make sure you tell us the results from running the tutorial...was anything found? Were you unable to complete any of the scans?...Were you unable to download any of the tools?...Did you do the on-line scans as suggested? etc.

After doing ALL of the above you still have a problem make sure you have booted to normal mode and run the steps in the below link to properly use HijackThis and attach a log:

Downloading, Installing, and Running HijackThis
Make sure you also rename HijackThis.exe as suggested in the procedures. Use analyse.exe for the new name. This is very important due to some new infections going around.

When you return to make your next post, make sure you attach the following logs and that you have run these scans in the following order too:

CounterSpy

AVG Antispyware log - ONLY IF NEEDED you were not able to run CounterSpy

Bitdefender - from step 6

Panda Scan - from step 6

runkeys.txt - the log from GetRunKey.bat

newfiles.txt - the log from ShowNew.bat

HijackThis

NOTE: You can only attach 3 files in a single message so it will require that you use two messages to attach all of these logs!

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"Re: Virus Activity Detected!"..? What's this here whoozabobber..?

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