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  • 09-09-2010 7:38pm
    #1
    Hazys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,510 ✭✭✭


    Heads up there is an email virus flying around US offices at the mo with the subject 'Here you have'.

    Its attacking anybody with MS Office 2007 or less, it may reach Ireland offices by tomorrow. SO DON'T CLICK THE LINK!

    I wonder if news will spread world wide enough to stop the virus spreading outside the US?



    On a side note; i think this is kinda cool that somebody could write a bit of code and suddenly your email has reached millions of mailboxes across the world in hours. I have received over 400 emails in less than an hour.


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  • #2
    Copper23
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 525 ✭✭✭Copper23


    Ha, 200 mails in my inbox and counting...

    ... must... not... click....


  • #3
    FreudianSlippers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,397 ✭✭✭✭FreudianSlippers


    Hazys wrote: »
    Heads up there is an email virus flying around US offices at the mo with the subject 'Here you have'.

    Its attacking anybody with MS Office 2007 or less, it may reach Ireland offices by tomorrow. SO DON'T CLICK THE LINK!

    I wonder if news will spread world wide enough to stop the virus spreading outside the US?



    On a side note; i think this is kinda cool that somebody could write a bit of code and suddenly your email has reached millions of mailboxes across the world in hours. I have received over 400 emails in less than an hour.
    Is this the one that has some weird story about being overseas and in need of money or something like that?


    Heard about an email going around the US like wildfire at the moment.


  • #4
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    Too late I've already had sex with it. Damn STI


  • #5
    nullzero
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,835 ✭✭✭✭nullzero
    °°°°°


    orourkeda wrote: »
    Too late I've already had sex with it. Damn STI

    It'll probably fall off by morning, if only you'd known.

    Glazers Out!



  • #6
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Any credible source on this?


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  • #7
    FreudianSlippers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,397 ✭✭✭✭FreudianSlippers


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    Any credible source on this?
    Google it :D there are a few sources for it. here's one:

    http://supertrender.com/20540-here-you-have-virus-email


  • #8
    Hazys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,510 ✭✭✭Hazys


    OisinT wrote: »
    Is this the one that has some weird story about being overseas and in need of money or something like that?


    Heard about an email going around the US like wildfire at the moment.

    The email includes a link, and if you click it, it forwards the email to all the mailling lists in you MS Outlook directory. I dont think its too much more dangerous than that but it'll slow you Outlook down a lot.

    http://www.thestclairtimes.com/pages/ad_details/?id=28921513


  • #9
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    OisinT wrote: »
    Google it :D there are a few sources for it. here's one:

    http://supertrender.com/20540-here-you-have-virus-email
    I did google it and got that very same link. Breaking news and celebrity gossip? Not what I was looking for.:D


  • #10
    FreudianSlippers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,397 ✭✭✭✭FreudianSlippers


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    I did google it and got that very same link. Breaking news and celebrity gossip? Not what I was looking for.
    lol... but...but...but... they're THE #1 MOST TRUSTED SOURCE OF NEWS ON THE INTERNET.


    Everyone knows Caps Lock is the cruise control of cool.


  • #11
    Hazys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,510 ✭✭✭Hazys


    Copper23 wrote: »
    Ha, 200 mails in my inbox and counting...

    ... must... not... click....

    Are you US based?

    If you are based in Ireland...boy has the virus spread quickly


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  • #12
    Killer Pigeon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,132 ✭✭✭Killer Pigeon


    Here you have


  • #13
    Hazys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,510 ✭✭✭Hazys


    Its world wide now, coming to Ireland tomorrow... http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/virus-mail-spreads-online/story?id=11596433

    Shut down Coca Cola, ABC, Comcast servers and all the screens in Times Sq crashed


  • #14
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,190 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    Thanks for the heads up.

    I wonder is that why my broadband was down for 3 hours? :confused:


  • #15
    Chaotic_Forces
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,659 ✭✭✭Chaotic_Forces


    ITT reports of idiots that don't know what spam is...


  • #16
    DOC09UNAM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,305 ✭✭✭DOC09UNAM


    Chaotic_Forces wrote: »
    ITT reports of idiots that don't know what spam is...
    ITT You have an idiot that can't read.


  • #17
    Chaotic_Forces
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,659 ✭✭✭Chaotic_Forces


    DOC09UNAM wrote: »
    ITT You have an idiot that can't read.

    If you open an attachment from a random email, bad idea.


  • #18
    DOC09UNAM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,305 ✭✭✭DOC09UNAM


    Chaotic_Forces wrote: »
    If you open an attachment from a random email, bad idea.
    It's not a random email, it's coming from someone who has you in their address book.


  • #19
    Chaotic_Forces
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,659 ✭✭✭Chaotic_Forces


    DOC09UNAM wrote: »
    It's not a random email, it's coming from someone who has you in their address book.

    Yeah well I don't know about you but if a mate of mine sends a dodgy email, it's still dodgy.

    Would you buy a 50 inch plasma off a mate for 10 quid with a copper next to you?

    An email like that spells suspicion.


  • #20
    DOC09UNAM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,305 ✭✭✭DOC09UNAM


    Chaotic_Forces wrote: »
    Yeah well I don't know about you but if a mate of mine sends a dodgy email, it's still dodgy.

    Would you buy a 50 inch plasma off a mate for 10 quid with a copper next to you?

    An email like that spells suspicion.
    Do you know what's in the email, do you know what it says?

    I'm sure it's not something stupid like that if a shítload of people have clicked it tbh, probably alot smarter than the average one, it's not trying to get money from you, I wouldn't imagine.

    I retract the idiot statement btw.


  • #21
    Chaotic_Forces
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,659 ✭✭✭Chaotic_Forces


    DOC09UNAM wrote: »
    Do you know what's in the email, do you know what it says?

    I'm sure it's not something stupid like that if a shítload of people have clicked it tbh, probably alot smarter than the average one, it's not trying to get money from you, I wouldn't imagine.

    I retract the idiot statement btw.

    Yeah but let's face it. Who in their right mind is going to download a file from a dodgy email?


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  • #22
    DOC09UNAM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,305 ✭✭✭DOC09UNAM


    But it's not a dodgy email addy, awareness is always the best way to go about things tbh.

    Lots of people in offices send around pictures and chain mail to each other to keep themselves occupied in the boring parts of work, who's to know this is different, it could be worded as a funny email, just a malicious link instead of a "funny picture".


  • #23
    Chaotic_Forces
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,659 ✭✭✭Chaotic_Forces


    DOC09UNAM wrote: »
    But it's not a dodgy email addy, awareness is always the best way to go about things tbh.

    Lots of people in offices send around pictures and chain mail to each other to keep themselves occupied in the boring parts of work, who's to know this is different, it could be worded as a funny email, just a malicious link instead of a "funny picture".

    Not the email address. The email itself. I don't know many people that need/would download a .pdf file (that know what a .pdf file is).


  • #24
    DOC09UNAM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,305 ✭✭✭DOC09UNAM


    Chaotic_Forces wrote: »
    Not the email address. The email itself. I don't know many people that need/would download a .pdf file (that know what a .pdf file is).
    Yeah but obviously some people do if it's spread this far...


  • #25
    Chaotic_Forces
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,659 ✭✭✭Chaotic_Forces


    DOC09UNAM wrote: »
    Yeah but obviously some people do if it's spread this far...

    Oh yeah, I know that. It's just a bit odd that companies have no idea about basic email awareness would help a lot.


  • #26
    KingLoser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 725 ✭✭✭KingLoser


    Well lads, this is real. I work for a US/Canada office. Here's a sample of the text you'll get:
    Subject: Here you have

    Hello:

    This is The Document I told you about,you can find it Here. http://www.nottherealurl.com/library/imessituphere/PDF_Document.pdf

    Please check it and reply as soon as possible.


    Cheers,


  • #27
    Copper23
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 525 ✭✭✭Copper23


    Chaotic_Forces wrote: »
    Not the email address. The email itself. I don't know many people that need/would download a .pdf file (that know what a .pdf file is).

    A PDF that gives you the option to "run" after downloading is def not a PDF.People need more common sense.


  • #28
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    I suspect this would be a problem more so for people in businesses that use exchange, more so then people with personal e-mail accounts.

    If i was to receive this mail and follow through with clicking the link and DL'n the attachment...

    the guts of 30,000 People all over the world would receive it. then if 1 of them was to go through it... 30,000 people again, and again and again...

    this kind of thing is designed to bottleneck bandwitdh....


  • #29
    FreudianSlippers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,397 ✭✭✭✭FreudianSlippers


    KingLoser wrote: »
    Well lads, this is real. I work for a US/Canada office. Here's a sample of the text you'll get:
    I wouldn't click on that :o


  • #30
    DOC09UNAM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,305 ✭✭✭DOC09UNAM


    OisinT wrote: »
    I wouldn't click on that :o

    he's obviously changed the link :rolleyes:


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  • #31
    Orange69
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,139 ✭✭✭Orange69


    Anyone still running a windows machine deserves a virus. In many ways the OS itself (particularly vista and 7) could be considered a virus in its own right.

    Get a mac you idiots!


  • #32
    Wertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    No thanks chuckles.

    *hugs Bill Gates*


  • #33
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    Orange69 wrote: »
    Anyone still running a windows machine deserves a virus. In many ways the OS itself (particularly vista and 7) could be considered a virus in its own right.

    Get a mac you idiots!

    If everyone had a mac there'd be attachments coded to do the same thing on a mac...


  • #34
    RockinRolla
    Closed Accounts Posts: 575 ✭✭✭RockinRolla


    I'm on a Mac....lulz @ all the PC peasants. :D


  • #35
    Orange69
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,139 ✭✭✭Orange69


    Whenever I see someone on a windows machine it reminds me of a savage caveman rubbing sticks together as they desperately try to create fire. I extend both pity and scorn to such people.


  • #36
    Wertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    Whenever I see someone on an Apple product it doesn't remind me of anything...most of the time they're the ones reminding me that they have an Apple product at any given opportunity.


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  • #37
    FreudianSlippers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,397 ✭✭✭✭FreudianSlippers


    DOC09UNAM wrote: »
    he's obviously changed the link :rolleyes:
    I meant if it came in my email


  • #38
    FreudianSlippers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,397 ✭✭✭✭FreudianSlippers


    Orange69 wrote: »
    Whenever I see someone on a windows machine it reminds me of a savage caveman rubbing sticks together as they desperately try to create fire. I extend both pity and scorn to such people.
    fanboys = lulz


  • #39
    Chaotic_Forces
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,659 ✭✭✭Chaotic_Forces


    Orange69 wrote: »
    Anyone still running a windows machine deserves a virus. In many ways the OS itself (particularly vista and 7) could be considered a virus in its own right.

    Get a mac you idiots!

    Windows is easier for most people. Macs aren;'t used enough to warrant a virus.


  • #40
    johnmcdnl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,739 ✭✭✭johnmcdnl


    whenever I see an apple I see someone who has too much money to be spending on something that just looks nice


  • #41
    DOC09UNAM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,305 ✭✭✭DOC09UNAM


    If everyone had a mac.

    Procreation would cease.


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  • #42
    FreudianSlippers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,397 ✭✭✭✭FreudianSlippers


    DOC09UNAM wrote: »
    If everyone had a mac.

    Procreation would cease.
    The world would just be one big circlejerk with people posting about how emo they are on twitter via their ipads!


  • #43
    Kazooie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 729 ✭✭✭Kazooie


    I had over 800 emails this moring in my inbox because of this. Kudos to whoever wrote it. Kudos I say!


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