Spamhuntress

I just got this e-mail, twice to the same address:

Dear Customer,

Our robot has detected an abnormal activity from your IP adress
on sending e-mails. Probably it is connected with the last epidemic
of a worm which does not have official patches at the moment.

We recommend you to install this patch to remove worm files
and stop email sending, otherwise your account will be blocked.

Customer Support Robot

Under the text “this patch”, there’s a link to an IP address with some encrypted looking URL. Different IP addresses for each mail. Both of them already have socket error, so I can’t check out what it contained.

Shaking head… There’s a discussion on “alt.madcrew” about this. Some people who appear to have taken the e-mail at face value. One of them writes:

installed the patch too but now my computer has become very slow and
even when I am not doing anything on my computer my hard drive makes a
lot of noise as if there is a lot of activity, I don’t understand

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