[Fredslist] RE: Cautionary notice

[David Abeshouse]

Update: 

Here's some recent follow-up info, for your info:  

Although Norton Internet Security didn't detect any problem at first, when I
scanned my computer immediately after possibly having become infected with
something from that "Facebook - private video" e-mail, it subsequently did
notify me of the presence of a security risk entitled "Downloader.Trojan."
NIS now tells me that it's removed this security risk and my computer is
secure.  

 

It's a virus, with a risk level described in one report as "high" and in
another as "very low."  

Additional particulars are available at: 

 
<http://securityresponse.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=20
03-011710-3138-99>
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=200
3-011710-3138-99     

 

 

BTW, now yet another Gotham member also has received it, through my e-mail
address (and others have received it through other Gotham members'
addresses, including from the one whose e-mail transmitted it to me).  This
latest affected Gothamite showed me what he received, and it's a slightly
different version than what I'd received from the other Gotham member, so it
seems that there are several iterations of it.  I'm not a computer expert
(Raj, any helpful advice for the group?), but I had my internet security
(anti-virus, etc.) software fix it, and you might want to either do
likewise, or contact your IT professional (such as Raj G.).  

 

I hope this info is helpful.   

 

Best, 

 

DJA

 

 

 

From: David Abeshouse [mailto:davidlaw at optonline.net] 
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2008 1:06 PM
To: Fred'sList (fredslist at gothamnetworking.com)
Subject: Cautionary notice

 

 

Friends and colleagues: 

 

There seems to be an e-mail virus ostensibly from Facebook going around,
among Gotham members.  It says (with many misspellings) that it contains a
"private video" - it apparently self-replicates, and transmits itself to
addresses in one's e-mail address, which is why you may have received it.  I
did a scan of my computer and it didn't turn up any infection.  

 

If you receive any such e-mail from my e-mail address or that of any other
Gotham member, please know that we did not send it to you -- I received it
from another Gotham member, who in turn received it from someone else in
Gotham, and there's now at least a fourth generation of it.  Please do not
open it for fear of infection - instead, delete it immediately.  

 

Thank you.  

 

David J. Abeshouse  

Law Office of David Abeshouse  

Uniondale, New York 

Ph: 516-229-2360   

 

 

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