Virus alert

Em · Post by Em » Mon Nov 17, 2003 7:40 pm

go here for the information just wnated to warn everyone

Sakuya · Post by **Sakuya** » Mon Nov 17, 2003 9:59 pm

Thanks! My sister uses Paypal.

Jed-kun · Post by **Jed-kun** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 6:46 pm

I'm surprised that this has effected so many people since, correct me if I'm wrong, Papal tells people that they will not e-mail you asking for credit card information. Then again people payed lot's of money for a penny 'cause it was marketed as a Coper Tribute to Lincoln.

Starscream · Post by **Starscream** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 7:30 pm

Jed-kun wrote:I'm surprised that this has effected so many people since, correct me if I'm wrong, Papal tells people that they will not e-mail you asking for credit card information. Then again people payed lot's of money for a penny 'cause it was marketed as a Coper Tribute to Lincoln.

A lot of people are gullible when it comes to things like this. They don't realize that attachments are usually a BAD thing, and that companies like Paypal would never send one out in e-mails.

Cardcaptor Takato · Post by **Cardcaptor Takato** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 10:37 pm

Luckly, I never pay attention to emails other than the ones that I get from my friends. When I see it's spam, I just click on the check box and hit delete. Gotta love Hotmail...

Akarui Kibuno · Post by **Akarui Kibuno** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 11:53 am

Just makes me laugh when I see that people get infected by such viruses.

I mean, if you use Paypal, they might send you an e-mail saying you need to update your profile... but you'd need to log in on the website first... so why would you send credit card info directly from the mail... since anyone can use the PayPal logo and then poof you send money to them instead...

Weird, and ironically funny anyway. :p

Tempest · Post by **Tempest** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 12:11 pm

Not to sound rude about this, but I fail to see the humor.

It's not really ignorance that people fall for such things. I read the artical at Yahoo! and the investigators said that it is a very convincing email. The email is very professional and polite to lead you to believe that it's an official email. You don't input your information though the an actual email application. You click on the link and that link creates a pop-up that is a virtual replica of the paypal "edit" area.

I can also see how people are being fooled. Some sites have a box underneither the login section that you can check to automatcially log in without the hassle of entering your username and password all the time. Some people may not know that you need to log into paypal everytime.

Jed-kun · Post by **Jed-kun** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 3:49 pm

Tempest wrote:Not to sound rude about this, but I fail to see the humor.

It's not really ignorance that people fall for such things. I read the artical at Yahoo! and the investigators said that it is a very convincing email. The email is very professional and polite to lead you to believe that it's an official email. You don't input your information though the an actual email application. You click on the link and that link creates a pop-up that is a virtual replica of the paypal "edit" area.

Oh, I hadn't heard that,( I had read a different article on it, small and aparently incomplete) that dose sound convincing. I guess the bottom line is to remember that pro sites will probably NEVER ask for you to submit info like that through e-mail/link without acctually loging into their site. And I'm glad that my grandma dosn't shop on line 'cause she'd probably fall for something like this.

Jumbled Thoughts · Post by **MarioKnight** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 7:17 pm

It sucks that stuff like this happens, but honestly, people should know better by now. These kind of situations are covered by the media so much, it's impossible to miss. People should very well know by now how to be careful of this kind of stuff and to double-check things before submitting info like that or opening e-mail from someone they don't know. If people can't get their act together by now, then they almost deserve what happens. I'm not condoning the actions of virus makers, they shouldn't be doing what they are, but by now the general public has been informed many times about these situations, and over and over again they keep occuring. About how convincing the e-mail sounds, anyone can easily replicate styles used by businesses and such, and it's not that hard to type up a piece of work that sounds offical. For this case, people should've gone to paypal and double check.

It's all common sense, especially by now. If people can't take the time to learn common sense screaming at them everytime a new virus or whatever is made into big stories in the media, then they deserve a swift kick in the right direction until they get the message.

MonkeyDLuffy · Post by **MonkeyDLuffy** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 7:34 pm

I havn't gotten the evil e-mail yet ^^ I am also a new member just a few days ago, maybe I'm not special enough

Post by **Tiff** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 8:19 pm

I agree with you, Dan. A lot of it IS common sense...like the whole emails thing...you just shouldn't open an email if you don't know the sender. I understand that sometimes viruses spread in other ways, and when that happens, one cannot help it. But to just open an email like that,ESPECIALLY with an attachment, is stupid. I don't even open up FWDs from friends, unless I know ahead of time they're sending to me.

Sailor Sapphire · Post by **Sailor Sapphire** » Sat Nov 22, 2003 3:23 pm

I've gotten SEVEN copies of the virus, deleted it every time!

MonkeyDLuffy · Post by **MonkeyDLuffy** » Sat Nov 22, 2003 4:17 pm

After I posted what I said, I got an email a few hours later. I would have opened it too if I didn't read the thread. Thank you so much Em ^^

Celexa · Post by **Celexa** » Sun Nov 23, 2003 8:36 am

Sailor Sapphire wrote:I've gotten SEVEN copies of the virus, deleted it every time!

O.o They must loooove you. My computer is messed, but it doesn't have any viruses. I SWEAR if I had a quarter for every time the computer has gone out, done something bad randomly, or froze up I would be about as rich as Bill Gates.