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Mystic Software => General Discussion => Topic started by: Xorlak on October 26, 2004, 08:58:56 PM

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Post by: Xorlak on October 26, 2004, 08:58:56 PM: Yes, although this should be fairly obvious, if you receive an email from a "staff@mysticsoftware.net" or something similar that asks you to open an attachment ending in .PIF, ignore and delete it!
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Post by: Dude Man on October 26, 2004, 09:09:15 PM: Okay, I'll be sure of that. Just why are these e-mails going around?
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Post by: quoaz on October 27, 2004, 12:21:21 AM: YES SIR!!!
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Post by: Spyder on October 27, 2004, 06:00:16 AM: Someone probably has a virus or spyware on their computer, which transmitted their Outlook Express address book to someones computer, which then sends out emails appearing as if they are from hosting@mysticsoftware.net (http://mailto:hosting@mysticsoftware.net), all MS email addresses begin with a persons username.
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Post by: Zeros' on October 27, 2004, 06:06:33 AM: I don't check my e-mail that much, but I'll still watch out.
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Post by: TK Game Boy on October 27, 2004, 02:57:47 PM: OI

I got one of em e-mails. I thought you ppl were being silly so I deleted it.
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Post by: Dude Man on October 27, 2004, 04:17:34 PM: I accually got a false E-Mail, but it was from Ben Linley, some dude I know.
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Post by: Cesque on October 28, 2004, 04:24:28 PM: Quote
Just why are these e-mails going around?

Spyder is having fun trying to sabotage our computers while Xorlak spoiled his fun by warning us about the whole action.
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Post by: Xavier on October 29, 2004, 08:38:50 AM: Yeah, it's been going for a while. I've also received one from xorlak@mysticsoftware.net, plus I receive about 30-40 virus e-mails a day anyway from lots of sources. I know some toolkitzone.com virus e-mails have been spoofed too, since I received one or two.

Luckily Norton Anti-Virus catches them all and auto-deletes, but still - very annoying.
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Post by: Spyder on October 29, 2004, 11:35:48 AM: I receive roughly the same amount of spam emails. None of them have attachments though, so I'm pretty sure they're not viruses. MS emails used to not get spam until one of the old email addresses started getting it (because more than likely the person was an idiot and used it to sign up for porn) and now my inbox gets flooded with it. I'm not sure about the rest, but I think it may be localized to just me, since I check the hosting address account as well, and nothing gets sent to it. RackHost had superb spam catching software though, and when enabled, eliminated virtually all of it, but since going to Netspace, it all started coming back again, and I had to download Mozilla's Thunderbird email software, which works fairly well at detecting and deleting it.
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Post by: AlienDude on October 29, 2004, 08:46:32 PM: If it's the Kretsky virus i got it like 20 times in the past 3 months. I got one like that from the DAE boards.