Comments on: Northwest Airlines email contains a trojan http://blog.mxlab.eu/2009/01/13/northwest-airlines-email-contains-a-trojan/ mx lab blog - all about anti virus and anti spam Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:53:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: dominic http://blog.mxlab.eu/2009/01/13/northwest-airlines-email-contains-a-trojan/#comment-3998 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:12:28 +0000 http://blog.mxlab.be/?p=324#comment-3998 sorry, to add – McAfee offline scanner is in wintools folder

now don’t ever open attachment from an unkown source again ;)

]]> By: dominic http://blog.mxlab.eu/2009/01/13/northwest-airlines-email-contains-a-trojan/#comment-3997 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:10:35 +0000 http://blog.mxlab.be/?p=324#comment-3997 hi all

to those with non booting machines – download the latest copy of Hiren’s boot disk and burn to CD, along with latest McAfee DAT update file.

Follow th instructions in the README for updating the virus defs by placing them into C:\VDEFS and do an offline scan.

]]> By: Jen http://blog.mxlab.eu/2009/01/13/northwest-airlines-email-contains-a-trojan/#comment-3994 Sun, 18 Jan 2009 03:23:11 +0000 http://blog.mxlab.be/?p=324#comment-3994 Cool. Thanks a ton for the alert. Remember, any emails you don’t know about, don’t open!

http://www.squidoo.com/Trojan-Horse-Computer-Virus

- Jen

]]> By: doom and gloom http://blog.mxlab.eu/2009/01/13/northwest-airlines-email-contains-a-trojan/#comment-3992 Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:06:58 +0000 http://blog.mxlab.be/?p=324#comment-3992 received this today (after recently booking airline ticket with listed email address!), but googled to cjheck it and found this site – Norton didn’t catch it (not my pref choice of AV)

one customer has now just phoned in having executed it and crashed his PC – looks like it’s spreading fast. any suggested removal tools, or rootkit scanners new enough to pick it up?

]]> By: Frances http://blog.mxlab.eu/2009/01/13/northwest-airlines-email-contains-a-trojan/#comment-3990 Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:10:47 +0000 http://blog.mxlab.be/?p=324#comment-3990 help!!

]]> By: Frances http://blog.mxlab.eu/2009/01/13/northwest-airlines-email-contains-a-trojan/#comment-3989 Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:20:08 +0000 http://blog.mxlab.be/?p=324#comment-3989 I opened this attatchment and now my computer will not operate at all. It will not start in safe mode either. Where do I go from here?

]]> By: James http://blog.mxlab.eu/2009/01/13/northwest-airlines-email-contains-a-trojan/#comment-3985 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:34:19 +0000 http://blog.mxlab.be/?p=324#comment-3985 Please do not open the attachment and just delete.

Please remember, this email did not actually come from NWA just from some scammer.

George, you never got charged. However, if you opened the attachment you may lose a lot more than $427.

]]> By: Thor http://blog.mxlab.eu/2009/01/13/northwest-airlines-email-contains-a-trojan/#comment-3983 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:37:45 +0000 http://blog.mxlab.be/?p=324#comment-3983 Thanks for the info–right on. And very quick news release! Who would ever open an .exe attachment anyways? Could merely opening an email ever be dangerous?

Hey Hagglof–Jeg tinker deg ikke kan forstor svensk? Tinker du englesk er bedder?

Tussen Tak MX Lab!

]]> By: George Herbig http://blog.mxlab.eu/2009/01/13/northwest-airlines-email-contains-a-trojan/#comment-3982 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:46:05 +0000 http://blog.mxlab.be/?p=324#comment-3982 Hello Northwest:

I have been charged $427.30 for a ticket I did not order, apparently
part of this virus scam. Would you please see that the charge against
my account is cancelled.

George Herbig

]]> By: Anon http://blog.mxlab.eu/2009/01/13/northwest-airlines-email-contains-a-trojan/#comment-3981 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:09:03 +0000 http://blog.mxlab.be/?p=324#comment-3981 If the email, but not the attachment, has been opened, what steps should be taken?
Thanks

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