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Massive Spam Shot of "Storm Trojan"

Posted by kdawson on from the storm-warning dept.

jcatcw writes "Postini has already counted nearly 5 million copies of the spam in the last 24 hours, and calculated that the run currently accounts for 87% of all malware being spread through email. 'Expect this to grow much larger,' a Postini spokesman said; 'It should top out at 60 million messages within the next 24 hours.' It's the largest attack in the last 12 months, and more than three times the volume of the two biggest in recent memory: a pair of blasts in December and January. The spam carries a ZIP file attachment posing as a patch with subjects such as Worm Alert!, Worm Detected, Spyware Detected!, or Virus Activity Detected."

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  1. I got one, I got one!!! by sobolwolf · · Score: 5, Informative

    This was an image file so I typed it out to so maybe a nice person with mod points will redeem my terrible Karma... -- Dear Customer, Our Robot has detected an abnormal activity from your IP address on sending e-mails. Probably it is connected with the last epidemic of worm which does not have offical 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. We had archived the patch becouse the worm can modify unpacked exe files. you should open the archive file, enter the password and run the patch immediately. Password: ugh11 Customer Support Center Robot __________ NOD32 2120 (20070316) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. patch-95150.zip - is OK patch-95150.zip > ZIP > patch-95150.exe - error - password-protected file http://www.eset.com/

  2. I saw one of these yesterday by jsewell · · Score: 4, Informative

    The msg body was a GIF containing text telling me there had been virus activity from my IP and I should run this "patch" to fix it. The "patch" was a zip file they said they had to send as a zip so my "comprimised virus scanner" wouldn't reject it. If I didn't run the patch, my internet access woudld be cut off. All I had to do was unzip and run the patch and all my problems would be solved. HA!

    We all had a chuckle at how stupid someone would be to actually do that - then we realized grandma probably would, not knowning any better. All the more reason to get grandma off windows and onto at least a Mac, if not Linux.