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Heavy Trojan SPAM alert: A new settings file for the support@yourdomain.com mailbox

Don't click the link if you get it. I might have been a victim of this one. Yesterday I reloaded MS Outlook 2007 for my Microsoft Hosted Exchange account.

And this morning I booted up to find the message:

A new settings file for the support@yourdomain.com mailbox. Hmmmm. What have I done?

But then there was: A new settings file for the alert@mydomain.com has just been released

And there were myriad others. I see a total of 8 variations on the theme. That was the giveaway.

Since I had just reloaded Outlook, I may have been sucked in by one. But I Googled one of the lines, and came up with this site, which coolly claims, "An acquired tasted for viruses and spam." They tell me it is a link to a Trojan virus that will invade your machine!

I tried to vet the message via http://spamdb.com/, and it appears that they are taking a break.

Surf safely!

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Mike Jaquish, REALTOR®

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Posted by Mike Jaquish Cary, NC, Real Estate on 10/15/2009 07:06 AM

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15 Comments on Heavy Trojan SPAM alert: A new settings file for the support@yourdomain.com mailbox

OCT

Good tips. We all need to be very careful. Best wishes for continued success.

Thanks, Roy.

Knock 'em dead today!

Thanks Mike for the warning....people are getting hacked on twitter again as of yesterday.

Same old messages.

Missy,

I am so careful on this stuff, and feel like I came so close to stepping in it.

If it helps just one person....

As if it isn't bad enough to have to reload Outlook....I'll be on the lookout! Thx!

It never ends, SarahGray...

Outlook was easy, since I am using a webhost for email. I erased and reloaded, and all the settings and configurations were there for me. It took minutes.

The hurdle was realizing that reloading was what I needed to do.

Ah - Mike not fun... thanks for the heads up!

I got a couple of those emails, but didn't click. Gmail labeled them spam.

Pam,

My pleasure!

Prest,

I pulled them out of the spam folder, too.

Thank you Mike!

You got it, Nevin!

We can never be too careful thanks for the heads up.

Terry Bonnie,

You are more than welcome!

OCT

Mike, here's my problem...I didn't really understand much of anything you said because I'm so naive about all this stuff. So, I guess I'm just plain lucky that my machine hasn't been invaded, well, maybe that plus the fact that I have a super secret weapon (named Matt) who keeps my computer in tip top shape! Thanks for making us all aware of the threat!

Pleased to serve as I'm able, Claire! :D

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