I just had an email through which looks legit, but which set the alarm bells ringing:
“Hello,
Your photograph was forwarded to us as part of an article we are publishing for our May edition of Business Monthly. Can you check over the format and get back to us with your approval or any changes you would like. If the photograph is not to your liking then please attach a preferred one.
Kind regards,
John Andrews
Dept Marketing
Flexiprint.co.uk
” it came from john@flexiprint.co.uk
There’s no way this is to me personally – nobody is going to be putting my picture in an article. It came with an attachment called Photo-Approval-Needed.zip and I’ve scanned this with the latest updates installed but nothing was found. The zip file apparently contains an.scr file, which is what has convinced me that it must be a virus.
I found nothing on google about htis, so I thought I would post this as a warning. I’m going to ang onto this file for a day or two and see when the virus scanner acually recognises it.
4 replies on “Brand New Virus?”
hi bridawg ,
I work at a small business dealing with people who have financial difficulties. We have just had someone try to gain access to our internet bank. I have been investigating this at work and found that a virus identical to the one you received from john andrews at flexiprint on your brand new virus blog. Could this be the same people who tried to gain acces to our bank please send me all information u might have on this matter. i would be very greatful. Thanks.
GT
Hi Bridawg,
I have just received the Photo-Approval-Needed.zip
Did you find out any more and is it bugged? It apppears to be a dos file and like you no virus’s found.
Does anybody know?
I received one today identical apart from a URL at the end saying http://www.businessreview.com/ which seems absolutely genuine.
Had several (spoofed I assume)from businessreview.com on Aug 23, 2005. Looks like a variation of http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_134271.htm