Did anyone else get an e-mail from Air America Radio

[Skidmore]

Entitled "Please download this file!"

The body says it is an important patch for Windows and provides what looks like a link to a executable file.

[Radio_Lady]

1. Delete it immediately! Sounds fishy...

[Dorian Gray]

2. No.

Did you download it? (I wouldn't, but I'm careful about downloads!)

[Debau2005]

3. Don't do it

Never download an exe file. Go to the AAR site and see if there is any news. Or send their tech support an email questioning it.

[Mythsaje]

4. Why would Air America radio

be sending you an important patch for Windows?

Sounds fishy to me.

[SnoopDog]

5. From airamericaplace.com - it is BAD - DELETE it

from airamericaplace.com


If you get a spam e-mail from Air America Place board with a link to an executable file DELETE IT! The administrative staff of AAP will never send you such a message. However the "person(s)" exploiting a security flaw in the board software have no such compunction. We are working on a remedy for the situation, and ask that you all practice safe computing-- never click on .exe's, keep your firewall running and your virus software up to date. I'm sorry for the inconvenience.

[mrcheerful]

6. Do not touch it, windows will not e mail patchs for their product. Never

trust e mails like this, fastest way to find out if phony, try to reply to it.

[LSK]

7. its probably a hoax

Delete it.

[TreasonousBastard]

8. Someone wants you to download a very nasty virus, and...

not only would I not download it, but I would forward the email, including all those undeciperable headers, to AA so they can try to assist tracking down who's doing this. They seem to be aware of the problem and might be able to use the headers to help.


You might not see all the headers without pressing some buttons on your email program, but this is what you're looking for. There could be more entries after "Received:" and they are the important ones:

Status: U
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from CTSG-WEB01.ctsg.com (<216.205.128.114>)
by montgomery.mail.atl.earthlink.net (EarthLink SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 1dlNGH2ZD3Nl3qB0
for <[email protected]>; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 15:38:11 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <13813952.1113421091759.JavaMail.SchedTaskAcct@CTSG-WEB01>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 15:38:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jim Hightower Grassroots Action Network <[email protected]>

[OffWithTheirHeads]

9. It was sent by KKKarl Rove!