News Item: : "Virus Sample" reply email supposedly from Symantec
(Category: Misc)
Posted by jps
Monday 13 August 2007 - 14:52:20
One my hosting customers just alerted me to a message he received that purported to be from someone at Symantec. He was confused because he does use Symantec Antivirus but thought to forward it to me first and ask if it's legit. It isn't. In fact the attached file "signature.zip" was infected with W32.Netsky.P@mm according to Symantec Antivirus.
Symantec does not have information about this bogus email but they do have info on the attached virus which has been around since 2004 . I can't imagine that the creative folk who came up with this will stick to faking mail from Symantec - all the major Anti-Virus software folk are likely next so keep in mind a couple things when reading email:
A text copy of the email:
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(Category: Misc)
Posted by jps
Monday 13 August 2007 - 14:52:20
One my hosting customers just alerted me to a message he received that purported to be from someone at Symantec. He was confused because he does use Symantec Antivirus but thought to forward it to me first and ask if it's legit. It isn't. In fact the attached file "signature.zip" was infected with W32.Netsky.P@mm according to Symantec Antivirus.
Symantec does not have information about this bogus email but they do have info on the attached virus which has been around since 2004 . I can't imagine that the creative folk who came up with this will stick to faking mail from Symantec - all the major Anti-Virus software folk are likely next so keep in mind a couple things when reading email:
- Don't trust email from people you don't know - regardless of who they pretend to work for.
- Don't open attachments from people you don't know - and be awfully careful of ones from people you do.
- For heaven sakes keep your antivirus software up to date - turn on it's auto-update feature and make sure you buy the newest version when your subscription runs out. I recommend Trend Micro to my customers but realistically any of the major players work fine - Mcafee, Symantec, etc.
A text copy of the email:
From: support@symantec.com [mailto:support@symantec.com]
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 9:08 AM
To: xxxxx@xxxxx.com
Subject: Re: Virus Sample
The sample file you sent contains a new virus version of buppa.k.
Please update your virus scanner with the attached dat file.
Best Regards,
Keria Reynolds
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