Strange email

[TT]

Today I got this strange email:

hello, I am from Belgium and you'll don't believe me,
but a trojan horse in on your pc.
I've scanned the network-ports on the internet. (I know, that's illegal)
And I have found your pc. Your pc is open on the internet for everybody!
Because the smss.exe trojan is running on your system.
Check this, open the task manager and try to stop that!
You'll see, you can't stop this trojan.
When you use win98/me you can't see the trojan!!

On my system was this trojan, too!
And I've found a tool to kill that bad thing.
I hope that I've helped you!

Sorry for my bad english!

greets

WTF is that all about? I suppose it's just a joke or a fake to lure ppl into something.. I don't even have that file in my system as far as I can see...

[RallyeNLD]

Update your virusscanner and check for instance http://us.mcafee.com/default.asp for more info. Otherwise ignore it.

[Jabba]

I bet the trojan killer is the actual trojan !!!

[SamuraiGti]

When you run the Trojan Killer, then you will have the trojan in the computer.

Always receiveing that kind of e-mail i don't know why.

[RallyeNLD]

Quote:"

I've scanned the network-ports on the internet. (I know, that's illegal)
And I have found your pc. Your pc is open on the internet for everybody!
Because the smss.exe trojan is running on your system.
Check this, open the task manager and try to stop that!
You'll see, you can't stop this trojan.
When you use win98/me you can't see the trojan!!

If he got only your IP adres, how did he came up with your mail adress? (is it so easy?)

[koliordos]

I would never believe any email like that, as Jabba says often this type of email is bogus and they try to trick you into either deleting system files or installing a cure that is actually some virus

although a real virus uses that exe.. http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.dalbug.worm.html

personally I would install up to date virus scanner and check with that, and run a firewall that blocks all connections you dont give permission to, that way you'll soon see if he tells the truth

[possessed_beaver]

yeh that has to be bogus, doa scan of you're windows directory (thats all i ever scan) when you're computer is in safe mode.

[TT]

I would never believe any email like that, as Jabba says often this type of email is bogus and they try to trick you into either deleting system files or installing a cure that is actually some virus

although a real virus uses that exe.. http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.dalbug.worm.html

personally I would install up to date virus scanner and check with that, and run a firewall that blocks all connections you dont give permission to, that way you'll soon see if he tells the truth

My Norton Antivirus is up to date and my Zone Alarm firewall working fine..

I never even open such emails BTW, but this one got my attention since it came from the mailerdemon as if it was me trying to send to a wrong email addy LOL.

[fishfreek]

Make your own decisions based on this link.

http://www.computing.net/windowsme/wwwboard/forum/40367.html

[RallyeNLD]

He immigrated to Belgium and still has the same problem. Some guys just don't have any luck :)

[TT]

LMAO:

smss is a normal running program in Win2k/XP

So that guy scanned my system and found a file that doesn't exists in Win98 (the system I use)?!?!? LMAO!

[jon_s]

delete it

[Wide]

Totally fake m8.. I though this file does not exist in win98 or win me.. But I`m not sure..

[TT]

Yes as posted above, that file doesn't exist in win98 :D

[Wide]

LoL.. When I first saw your post.. I reply it immediately w/o readin other posts :)

[fishfreek]

He probably did not even scan your system but instead somehow stumbled upon your e-mail. You should ask yourself. How did he find your e-mail address by scanning yoru computers open ports? He didnt. The only way to know that would be to physically be looking at the packtes comming into/outof your computer ro to have gotten your e-mail off a spammer list.

[levensnevel]

Might be stupid and old fashioned but I delete all E-mails from:
> unknown E-Mail addresses &
> unexpected E-mails from known E-Mail addresses
by default :idea:

[jon_s]

Might be stupid and old fashioned but I delete all E-mails from:
> unknown E-Mail addresses &
> unexpected E-mails from known E-Mail addresses
by default :idea:

ditto

[666fast]

http://members.fbody.com/666fast/haxorz.jpg

[draak666]

TT, I got the same e-mail (believe it or not) from a guy from Switserland. Hotmail wouldn't even let me open the attachment. That's the advantage of Hotmail, it scans your e-mail for you.

[TT]

LMAO, so I got it from a neighbours of you and you got it from one of mines? LMAO, funny :D

[gucom]

ive had the exact same shit, except in german(owh w8 u live in CH. was ur email in german?). My anti-virus prog said it was very dangerous, and hotmail advised me NOT to open it, so i got rid of it

thats sum sneaky m*f* sending tose emails, just dont get how he got that many email adresses?

[Chingachgook]

I had a different type of e-mail. The FBI had my IP adress and discovered downloaded music and videos protected by copyright,so because of the article I don't remember I was going to be persecuted and so on. There was a file named ####.rtf.exe where ####stands for the article number. A damn trojan

[gr]

If he got only your IP adres, how did he came up with your mail adress? (is it so easy?)

No, it isn't. There's a couple of possibilities:

1. You have your own block of IP addresses assigned from RIPE (Europe), your e-mail addy will show if you do a whois on one of the IP addresses in that block.
2. You have a webserver or anything like that running on that IP address with your e-mail on a webpage or whatever...
3. Sniffing the network traffic (but that shouldn't be possible from Belgium).
4. You sent him an e-mail earlier and he checked the origin address...

So, yes, the e-mail is fake.

[astro3x]

My name is aStro3x and I used to be a hacker.

( hi astro3x )

It's been roughly 3 years since my last hack. I now do network security as a side gig when i am not getting in trouble with the opposite sex. (muahahahaha) and one thing I can tell you, without doubt, is that if you have Zone Alarm Pro working properly on your system, it is next to impossible to hack your box. That software (ZAP) has a few holes, but nothing major and just to exploit those few holes, you need to know a few goodies that odds are, this asshat doesn't know.

No stress TT, you're good as gold. If you'd like to post your ip, I'd be happy to try and drop some porn on your desktop. lol

kidding... juuuust kidding.

[shikar]

its all lies

[black_magician]

at least you didn't get your drive formated. It's sure possible through a trojan