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| Thread ID: 31792 | 2003-04-01 01:53:00 | Speed Freak mail hijack | Jim B (153) | Press F1 |
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| 132544 | 2003-04-01 01:53:00 | Has anyone got any information about the following email that is being sent unsolicited from users mail program address book. It usually has the subject Recommendation from then users name. It is not sent as an attachment and virus scan shows nothing. If you want to seriously improve your internet speed you need to try SPEED FREAK. I have authorized this recommendation to be sent to you because this product works. Don't worry, you are not on some list, this was sent from me as a recommendation. I strongly suggest that you give SPEED FREAK a try whether you have a dial up or a cable connection. This is not another bogus accelerator, SPEED FREAK really works. It costs nothing to download and you can noticeably improve your internet speed in minutes! For a free download of SPEED FREAK click here or go to http://www.getfreaked.com |
Jim B (153) | ||
| 132545 | 2003-04-01 02:14:00 | A friend of mine got one too. He asked me about it. I did a quick search and couldn't find anything positive or negative around the internet. | Dolby Digital (160) | ||
| 132546 | 2003-04-01 03:03:00 | It's made by a company called Digital Robotics Inc. Thats about all the info I could find. Did you do a Spybot/AdAware scan? Sounds like it's relatively new. |
honeylaser (814) | ||
| 132547 | 2003-04-01 03:25:00 | I don't know the person who sent it but I was obviously in their address book. It must be something new and it is unusual in that it seems to hijack your mail program yet it does not seem to be caused by a virus and it is concerning that there is no indication what it is or what causes it. |
Jim B (153) | ||
| 132548 | 2003-04-01 03:42:00 | > I don't know the person who sent it but I was > obviously in their address book. You don't know them? At all? Sounds like ordinary spam flavoured email to me. |
honeylaser (814) | ||
| 132549 | 2003-04-01 03:48:00 | I got one from someone that I know would have me in their address list, but would be most unlikely to send such a message. I deleted it as a form of spam. Clever though. | godfather (25) | ||
| 132550 | 2003-04-01 04:33:00 | Yes it is just like spam but it is sent unsolicited from a persons mail program. It has actually been sent from that persons computer, the From address is not faked and there was no unput from that person. The message is complete, it is not a portion of something that has been picked up from a persons file. The question is how is it done and what is doing it. |
Jim B (153) | ||
| 132551 | 2003-04-01 05:31:00 | I looked at the URL for the program, and it's just another download optimiser. My guess is that when you install it, it performs this email spam function. Its not malicious or nasty, but a new twist on advertising. The text of the message will be in a dll or exe, and all it needs is OE or Outlook probably to access the address book. I bet that it's outlined in the "Conditions of Use" that we all accept without reading. I also bet it's hard to uninstall. I have no need for a download optimiser so I am not tempted to try. Also as I use Eudora it may not work, its seldom a target for these problems |
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