Suspicius Emails from Gigposters

[RichieGoodtimes]

I just got a really strange email from help@gigposters.com titled CELLPADDING with 2 strange attachments.

VALUE.exe and Mother_Family_500x230_03[1].jpg

What is this stuff. Some sort of virus thing? I'm not up on my viruses.

[admin]

Very odd indeed. I haven't even looked at my email today (I'm at work).

There is no way that it actually came from that email address. I get those emails all the time from assorted virus spammers out there.. but my virus protection catches them every time.

Make sure you have virus protection on your computer. I use Norton 2002.

If anyone else gets this, please let me know. That sucks.

[rotodesign]

It's a virus, and I'm sure it's not actually coming from Gigposters. Whoever's doing it is getting e-mail addresses off web sites and sticking them in the "from" part of the e-mail before spamming other e-mail addresses stolen from the web. I get returned e-mails all the time that look like I sent them, but are viruses/spam. Unfortunately, anyone whose e-mail address is on the web is susceptible. Just delete them, and run a virus checker regularly.

[Brute666]

It sounds like the Klez virus. It picks random email addresses from a computer's address book and then sends itself to every address in the list using the random address in the From column. The virus also picks random sentences from text files on the computer to use as the message. So you're looking for someone who has help@gigposters.com in their address book and has written about cellpadding and also has a picture called Mother_Family_500x230_03[1].jpg. This virus is still around because people don't know they have it. Anybody who receives it can't tell the person because they can't track down the infected computer.
The good news... It doesn't affect MACs or Linux.
You can read more about the virus here...
http://securityresponse.symantec.com...klez.h@mm.html

Delete it and check your system for viruses. Good luck.