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Well if it doesn't kill my D drive (backup drive) I'm happy.

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Shut down your PC?

That solves.... what?

Every day there's a new "super ultra devastating" virus (the worst the world has ever seen, at least until tomorrow, if not sooner)

delete it, and move on with your day. and as Speedbird said, the ones that are really nasty to get rid of are the ones that you have to worry about.

 

It's very likely this has been around for several years. Might have resurfaced as something new, might be under a different name, but i'd wager that it's been around the block.

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Why would you even open an email you weren't expecting to receive.... 

 

As an example, i get emails from 'banks' i have never even banked with about 'my account' all the time; don't even bother opening them just block the morons straight away. If you're stupid enough to open an email with an attachment you weren't expecting, you deserve the virus. 

 

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All them 'Barclays' and 'HMRC' and the rest shown are fake senders... 

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If people didn't learn by now not to download attachments from unknown mails...well that is sad

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If people are still dumb enough to download something from a strange email, it's almost deserved. 

What do they know of England, who only England know?

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Are you kidding?  When my mail man knocks on my door with a ticking box without a return address, I open that up immediately!!!   

Prolly that new alarm clock I've always wanted but just never purchased and Google just read my mind....

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It's good that I don't care about email anymore

How do you share important information then? Facebook?

 

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@juretn What do you mean? For chatting etc. I use iMessage or Skype

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Well if it doesn't kill my D drive (backup drive) I'm happy.

I don't want anything going after my D...

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Why don't I ever get viruses in my mail?  All I get are African princes and bank managers wanting to give me millions.  I can barely walk through my house anymore because of all the money that's piled up in the rooms, so I have started to turn them down.

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Ughh... e-mail notices, is this what this forum has degraded to? :unsure:

I roll with sigs off so I have no idea what you're advertising.

 

This is NOT the signature you are looking for.

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This isn't devastating. I've seen viruses destroy BIOSs.

dude, theres one that the set your TJ Max temp on your cpu to like 260* C then it runs a bitcoin miner and it melts your system

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dude, theres one that the set your TJ Max temp on your cpu to like 260* C then it runs a bitcoin miner and it melts your system

Holy Shit...

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Ok.
Even if I were to "open" the email, thunderbird(and gmail for that matter.. or any email service worth a damn) blocks any external elements by default.. and I know to not reveal external elements or open attachment from people I don't know.

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Holy Shit...

ikr, it was a AMD sempron system, so the pins went into a plastic tray like thing. the plastic was melted and the thermal compound got so hot it started to run all over the motherboard.

and it even dripped moten plastic/thermal compound onto the GPU, so everything was screwed.

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So I received an email. It was from someone I never sent an email to, and the title was "Re: bn.powershot4". My email has two fours on the end, so I was already suspicious. I opened the email to find nothing but a link that says "Click here to read this message". 

 

Hell no I ain't clicking that on my desktop, over to my burner BlackBerry.

 

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Clicking on the link brings you to a webpage that looks (at least on mobile) exactly the same as a standard Google account login page, I bet you if any but one of my friends were sent this, they would think it is real. However the URL wasn't accounts.google.com, it was some random string of numbers. Dead giveaway that it was fake.

 

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For the email and password I just mashed the keyboard and entered random shit. Clicking sign in, it actually accepted the info (confirming phishing site), and brought me to this page. Which also happens to be fake, this time a fake BBC site.

 

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Wow, it amazes me how legit this would have looked if I didn't know better, so many people that could have fallen for this and had their account info taken just like that. smh

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wth?!

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LOL. How come I never get funny scam emails like that? I always get ones about canadian penis enlargment pills

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