[SARES] Possible source of the SARes (computer) virus

From: Robert Stodieck <stodieck@INTERNET.>
Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 11:07:57 -0700
After reading this email I noticed that a certain anti-virus script that had
run in the background for several years on my old laptop did not restart on
my new laptop after I migrated applications and files from the old machine
to the new one. If this was the problem, it has been fixed. The exposure
period would have been about 3 weeks from early May.

The type of virus involved could have sent email using my address book. But
it does not appear to propagate by email. It is a JavaScript virus that
enters a machine passively through a web browser loading certain bogus
website pages.

I am also now receiving obvious phishing emails. The most recent purporting
to be from the Bank of America, "Notification: Re-Enroll your Account
Information" (I am not a B of A customer). However, this is not really
anything new over here, a few of these show up monthly.

A link in above email is masked to appear to be going to the B of A actually
goes to a European domain. www.eahh.dk

Robert Stodieck  
stodieck@INTERNET. comcast.net


> From: James Long <n6yb@INTERNET. arrl.net>
> Reply-To: James Long <n6yb@INTERNET. arrl.net>
> Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 17:11:48 -0700
> To: SARES mailing list <sares-list@INTERNET. sunnyvaleares.org>
> Subject: [SARES] virus scans
> 
> SARES members should do a virus scan on their computer.  Today I got
> some criminal spam requsting my bank account information on one of my
> email addresses that only two of my friends and some SARES members know.
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