Anyone else heard from TotalBusiness.com?

[simpo two]

Just trying to work out if anything fishy is going on...

e-mail said:

Hello, We have been trying to get through to you on the phone today but you must be out at work, your photograph was forwarded to us as part of an article we are publishing for our February edition of Total Business Monthly. Can you check over the format and get back to us with your approval or any changes? If the picture is not to your liking then please send a preferred one. We've attached the photo with the article here. Kind regards, Jamie Andrews Editor www.TotalBusiness.com

There was an 8Kb zip file attached which I haven't opened in case it's a collection of viruses.

[jeremyc]

Yup: I got one of those.

Has spam written all over it: bin it immediately.

The attachement contains nothing like a photograph - it is a Zip file with an executable in it.

[simpo two]

Cheers Jeremy, why do these w*nkers bother?

[blondemoment]

I got one too - VERY annoying! Glad my Spamkiller picked it up though!

[Marki]

simpo two said:

Cheers Jeremy, why do these w*nkers bother?

I ask that same question about 6 times a day ,, mind you they have slowed down over the last week , i will now only open attachments if i know who its from and am expecting a file and never ever an exe

Be carefull out there folks

[Bacardi]

Yep, got one too. I get very little spam with my .mac account, wonder where this one comes from. Being mac based, I'm most probably immune to it. Tell you what, I'll decompress it and forward it to Simpo, he can tell us what it does .

[Marki]

And i am sick ant fffing tired of generic viagra offers and now offers to make me
"COME LIKE A PORN STAR" with their sperm enchancer pills WTF

[740i]

Whilst on the subject of spam and viruses, be warned a new one known as "Nyxem" is due to be set loose this Friday.

[nighthawk]

I've seen that format now 6 times and the text is always different but on the same subject.

People who release these things into the internut should be shot!

[ledaig]

Had one of these a while back and went a looking Sophos

[joust]

It is a trojan virus. Do NOT open it.

www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojstinxs.html

Unfortunatly at this time only Sophos have a cure for it. If you have inadvertantly run it, then you really have no choice but to install the trial of Sophos, or wait with a compromised machine until the rest catch up (should be tomorrow).

J

[simpo two]

Dear me, this must be the price of fame; I have another:

Wanker said:

Hello, Your photograph has reached editing stage as part of an article we are publishing for our February edition of the Guardians business section. Can you check over the format and get back to us with your approval or any changes? If the picture is not to your liking then please send a preferred one. We've attached the photo with the article here. Kind regards, William Morrison Editor www.Guardian.com

Luckily it seems photographers are blessed with sufficient braincells to deflect such nonsense.

Bacardi said:

Yep, got one too. I get very little spam with my .mac account, wonder where this one comes from. Being mac based, I'm most probably immune to it. Tell you what, I'll decompress it and forward it to Simpo, he can tell us what it does .

Thankyou, that'll be a new PC please, plus a nice lighting rig as compensation

[joust]

740i said:

Whilst on the subject of spam and viruses, be warned a new one known as "Nyxem" is due to be set loose this Friday.

We have been warning our customers of this for some time.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39249660,00.htm

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6032820.html

We just hope other ISPs do the same....

J

[hansgerd]

I received this one too. Did anyone bother to mail this Jamie Andrews of www.TotalBusiness.com ? I just deleted it.

[_dobbo_]

hansgerd said:

I received this one too. Did anyone bother to mail this Jamie Andrews of www.TotalBusiness.com ? I just deleted it.

No point emailing anyone, it's a virus and all the sender details and content are a forgery.

What's interesting is that mine (all 4 copies) arrived to an email address I've only ever given to Nikon.... Hmmm....

[simpo two]

hansgerd said:

I received this one too. Did anyone bother to mail this Jamie Andrews of www.TotalBusiness.com ? I just deleted it.

It bounced.

_dobbo_ said:

What's interesting is that mine (all 4 copies) arrived to an email address I've only ever given to Nikon.... Hmmm....

That would explain the targetting of photographers. It also tells me that Bacardi is a closet Nikon subscriber

[ehasler]

hansgerd said:

I received this one too. Did anyone bother to mail this Jamie Andrews of www.TotalBusiness.com ? I just deleted it.

No point mailing him - he wouldn't have anything to do with this. It's more likely that the originator of the mail has picked his details to put in the mail, or it was sent by someone who had his email address in their address book.

[Bacardi]

simpo two said:

It also tells me that Bacardi is a closet Nikon subscriber

Damn.... been found out.