[OT - AIM] Disguised URL's In AIM's and Counterfeit Pay PalEmails

[vw_85roccoZ400 at hotmail.com (Brian Spinney)]

Peter,
I got the same message from
vwdubnut85:  should i put these pictures of us on myspace or facebook?
> http://photobucket.com/NewPictures/pic20.jpg

its is a virus!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger concha" <rogercv1@gmail.com>
To: <peter@thescirocco.com>
Cc: "Scirocco list" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 9:19 AM
Subject: Re: [OT - AIM] Disguised URL's In AIM's and Counterfeit Pay 
PalEmails


that is a virus going around that makes use of one of the lates WMF
security holes in all of MS OS's, if you havent done it lately update
your OS's

On 1/18/06, Peter <peter@thescirocco.com> wrote:
> Check this AIM message out, and it's happened several times before, from
> other unknown senders:
>
> vwdubnut85:  should i put these pictures of us on myspace or facebook?
> http://photobucket.com/NewPictures/pic20.jpg
>
> thesciroccocom: Nice try: http://download.pinkiespalace.net/picture01.pif
>
> I clicked to show the hyperlink, and this is what the seemingly harmless
> photobucket URL actually is:
> http://download.pinkiespalace.net/picture01.pif
>
> This is probably nothing, but when the url is disguised, it makes me
> suspicious.
> In the past .jpg's have turned into .exe's and so on.
>
> This is also really common with all the Pay Pal spoofs;
> [mailto:spoof@paypal.com]
>
>
> Peter
> http://thescirocco.com/
>
> Please! Include the previous text in your reply...
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