Re: [OT]: A scam

Author: Michael Madigan

Posted: 2012-08-30 at 06:54:18

Just a warming, that I neglected to say before, combofix sometimes messes up scanner drivers, so just a heads-up.  

You should be able to just either do it under services in computer administration, or just right click the icon in the tray and disable it.   

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From: Eurico Chagas Filho <e28chagas@yahoo.com.br>

To: ProFox Email List <profox@leafe.com>

Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 7:35 AM

Subject: Re: [OT]: A scam

Michael

ComboFix asks to shut down Microsoft Security Essentials. Do u know how can I do that ?

Tks, E.

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> From: Michael Madigan <mmadi10699@yahoo.com>

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>Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 7:52 AM

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>That means you're pumping out spam out of their server.

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>Combofix was the only program that made a spam bot go away off of my computer.   

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>From: Eurico Chagas Filho <e28chagas@yahoo.com.br>

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>Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 8:27 PM

>Subject: Re: [OT]: A scam

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>Thanks Jerry.

>I just received an email from "hotmail" saying that my account has been blocked

>due to an unusual activity and that I should confirm that I am me,<s>.

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>E.

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>> From: Jerry Wolper <jwolper@swanzoco.com>

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>>Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 6:45 PM

>>Subject: Re: [OT]: A scam

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>>> I guess they captured my address and are using it, or I got a virus

>>> in my computer. But it doesn't make sense. Why send from an

>>> address and then use my name ? Does anybody knows something ?

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>>The spammers peobably just captured your address. By using an

>>"innocent" From address, they can bypass some spam filters.

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>>-Jerry

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