From: Carmine Vaccarino [MC1957]
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 10:23 AM
Subject: The newest virus circulating is the> “UPS > Delivery Failure”
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A new virus. This is true, not a hoax. Go to the snopes link below for full details. I have not received any but had this warning forwarded to me and as always, I check them out on snopes.
Carmine
http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/ups.asp
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> COMPUTER VIRUS WARNING
The newest virus circulating is the> “UPS > Delivery Failure”.
You will receive an email from UPS Packet Service along
with a packet number.NOTE: The word packet is mis-spelled on this line as paket.
It will say that they were un-able to deliver a package sent by
you on such and such a date. It then asks you to print out the
invoice copy attached. The attached zip file contains a document
that masquerades as a WORD document.
DON’T TRY TO PRINT THIS. IT LAUNCHES THE VIRUS!
Pass this warning on to all your PC operators at work and home
and to all your address book.
This virus has caused millions of dollars in damage in the past
few days. It was first reported on in July (last month)
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[JR: Carmine is correct. Some folks at work got burned by this one. HOWEVER, no home user should be running "naked". That is without proper security software on their home pcs. Some ISPs give to you free. Note: that one can use "purposed" emails to detect phish, spam, or phrobes. So for example, for it to be a valid UPS message to the 'reinke dot cc' it would have to come addressed to "UPSXXXXYYYY at reinke dot c c" where XXXX and YYYY are super secret codes. On XP, Outlook rules, and, on my mac, mac smart rule, would filter the message into a dedicated mailbox for UPS. I have about 100 of these setup. The value is that any bad stuff comes in and might as well smell like a dead fish. SO, why would a message from my bank be anywhere but in my Bank's dedicated folder. With your own domain, this stuff is trivial to set up and costs nothing extra! Message me if you want help to set it up.]
p.s., I got the bad message at work but it failed my similar setup there so I knew it was ‘poison’.
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