Comments on: Spam Alert: ‘CNN.com Daily Top 10′ Email Contains Malware

By: Logician

Logician — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:59:30 +0000

Robin,
It’s getting worse … today I received one of the Greeting Card trojan malware emails When will it end? My AVG allowed it in, claiming no viruses present. Does this mean that the rats are winning?

By: Logician

Logician — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 05:50:54 +0000

Robin, you ask how to get rid of the CNN malware Trojan infection … A worth considering method is described here http://www.411-spyware.com/fake-cnn-alerts-my-custom-alert-email Good luck.

By: Logician

Logician — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 05:37:08 +0000

As stated above, I have received 21 of the CNN emails, all passed by AVG as free of viruses. Today, I received my second MSNBC email. Both were passed by AVG. But both were considered possible email scams by Thunderbird, a slight improvement. My AVG is upgraded each morning on start-up. Can anyone suggest a safer free anti-virus package? After all, the CNN scam is over a month in operation … how long does it take for an anti-virus company take to catch up to the rogues?

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:10:56 +0000

This malware is now coming in as an alert from MSNBC.

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:47:49 +0000

HOw do we get rid of this if our computers/network is infected. One of our employees actually clicked to download and now it seems we all have it. Our email gets shut down everyday by Spamcop. HELP! We used antivirus software and some specifically malware removal software from bleepingcomputer. But it said it found nothing.

Does anyone know how to get rid of this?

By: Clare

Clare — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:49:04 +0000

Thanks Adrian, have followed suite… what a relief it will be not to see these emails a hundred times a day!

By: Bert

Bert — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:42:35 +0000

Hi there.

You guys sure scare me though. I use AVG for Virus protection and Search & Destroy for other nasty bits.
My question is. Is this enough? I don’t use my credit card on line nor any shopping. Just a few e-mails, like NASA.

Thanks for warning me.

Regards Bert.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:34:31 +0000

I have taken the Outlook resource a stage further. In the create rules section, I have listed the CNN details as you show, and have then directed Outlook to “permanently delete”. Hey presto, I dont even see the damn things any more.

By: Logician

Logician — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:12:39 +0000

For the last month or so, I have received many of these CNN spam messages. I have tried to find their ISPs concerned, so to send reports and identification of culprits, to no avail. If you can do better at hanging these scum, I submit these email addresses and IP addresses. Good luck. The web is far too important and valuable to let pour down the sewer.

Email address IP number Web site?

detpmoc_1955[at]buy-cheap-checks.com 82.211.244.50
emob1970[at]83springstreetexclusive.com 82-68-134-61
diehdmaa1957[at]ls.csbsju.edu 62-249-237-7
kregelig1984[at]robinsonbrog.com 195.62.18.133
Nadim-siss[at]stonington.com lam006-18513-net-adsl-06.altohiway.com
hek-riviales[at]miraco.com.eg 122.32.74.175
Yunfei-anhenisi[at]pabst.com 124.106.183.145
Nicklas-necirulp[at]i-am-now.com 61.172.193.245
rarrubmi_1994[at]2lucky.nl 90.200.51.121
Chadi-tiaitsin[at]8gnu2dkryah.besttofly.com 24.114.255.83
l{vyt|yh_1984[at]archiesisland.com 190-177-131-203
cityloru_1986[at]flex-a-chart.com 84.236.1.221
esaem1950[at]sfcs.net 117.199.81.155
Ameet-omoireht[at]5pioneers.com 200.89.116.20
Alvina-trohsif[at]nishikawa-gr.co.jp to2-84-91-253-177
foorpsug1981[at]santory.com.mx 68-26-38-23
49-445301973[at]boltondental.com 83-131-20-190
hubertus-ot-ytioh[at]gigadesignonline.ru 212.68.131.121

Good luck.

By: Jon B

Jon B — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:49:06 +0000

Thanks I’ve been bombarded with these emails over the last few days so hopefully the outlook rule I’ve set up will help.