Warning: UPS Virus

[aimeeandbeatles]

In my spam folder I got an email from "UPS" saying that I have a delivery or wotnot... I took a peek at it and I was like "WTH, nobody's sending any packages that I know of."

So it said to look at the attachment... a RAR file. Obviously I was like "why the $@#& would UPS send a RAR file?" and I didnt open that. I googled it and brought up this:
http://www.techimo.com/forum/security-privacy-issues/211511-ups-email-attachment-virus.html so I deleted it.

Its 2 years old but if I just got it it must be still going around. Just a warning to people. I wish more of them would think the way I did before going ahead and opening them though.

 

[kiwitt]

It's a very common trick ... not just UPS, but fedex as well.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Yeah, in the thread a lot of the people who got infected said they werent thinking... I mean seriously, this is what I mean when I say common sense is one of the best antiviruses.

 

[Furiey]

It's easier to get caught out if you are expecting a parcel from UPS or whoever. I know someone, usually very virus aware who was caught out by a fake e-birthday card on his birthday. His kids always sent e-cards and on that particular occasion he opened something he otherwise would not have. I still remember how annoyed he was with himself the next day at work after having spent half the night cleaning his home system up.

 

[GoodGame]

It's what is called "social engineering". I.e. they try to trick you. Same as those websites that say "Wait our online virus scanner says you have a virus Click OK or Cancel" when the only thing to do is hit alt-close on your browser.

 

[Furiey]

Yes, those fake virus alerts are annoying. At least I now have my father trained to deal with them properly rather than phoning me at strange hours to ask what to do.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

My mom got taken in by several of them. Most of the time I was able to remove it but one of them resulted in a system reinstall.

Also, thats the only type of malware Ive ever gotten on my system. I accidentally picked up a fake torrent for something legal... forgot exactly what.

 

[kiwitt]

www.malwarebytes.org is a good trojan cleaner.

Run it in safemode and it will clear most if not all trojans

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I havent seen Malwarebytes fail to remove a detected malware yet.

 

[Turner]

I have.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Must be a different virus.

 

[PeteAtoms]

Usually you can read the email address of the sender and tell it's not legit.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Unless its spoofed, which is easily done.

 

[PeteAtoms]

How do you spoof an email?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I cant remember how exactly its done but theres online services to do it. Once I received an email from "Tom Petty" but in the headers it showed it had actually come from Russia.

 

[PeteAtoms]

I cant remember how exactly its done but theres online services to do it. Once I received an email from "Tom Petty" but in the headers it showed it had actually come from Russia.

What was the email address of the message you mentioned in the first post?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

It was something@ups.com... I forgot the first part though