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spaceuk
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From: Staffs, UK
Registered: Aug 2002

posted 08-20-2003 02:55 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for spaceuk     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
There is a email going around that purports to come from

contact@collectspace.com

It has an attachment file which it asks you to view DON'T !

It is more than likely a virus or worm.

There are several forms of this going around
that start Re'details with attached files.

Don't open them - viruses attached.

You will have beentargeted because soemone
elses system address book has been infected and your 'unlucky' email address was in it.

Best keep email addresses outside of your email program - certinly not inside outlook express or similar.

Phill

Robert Pearlman
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From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999

posted 08-20-2003 04:24 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The virus did not actually come from contact@collectspace.com.

collectSPACE runs off a Mac OS X server and is edited using a Mac OS X client, both unaffected by the Sobig virus which you have received.

The virus grabs e-mail addresses from several different locations on a computer, including the Windows address book and Internet cache, and sends e-mails to each one. The virus also forges the source of the message using a randomly selected e-mail address so that the infected message appears to come from someone else -- hence the appearance it came from contact@collectspace.com

You can read more about it here:
http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-5065494.html

It is currently plaguing most of the space industry (I have literally received over 500 copies in the past 24 hours.) It appears that the virus is making its way through NASA as well...

mensclub10@aol.com
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posted 08-20-2003 11:08 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for mensclub10@aol.com   Click Here to Email mensclub10@aol.com     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I have received 4 messages with mail returned that have a text download attached to view my message. All in the last two days. It must be a virus! I didn't open the download. I hope I didn't get the virus!

Dave

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