Subject: Your internet access is going to get suspended
I have a client who has been getting this email for the last couple of days.
Subject: Your internet access is going to get suspended
Your internet access is going to get suspended
The Internet Service Provider Consorcium was made to protect the rights of
software authors, artists.
We conduct regular wiretapping on our networks, to monitor criminal acts.
We are aware of your illegal activities on the internet wich were
originating from
You can check the report of your activities in the past 6 month that we have
attached. We strongly advise you to stop your activities regarding the
illegal downloading of copyrighted material of your internet access will be
suspended.
Sincerely
ICS Monitoring Team
At first, I was a bit freaked out, because they do do alot of downloading. I tried forewarding the email to me, but it was not delevired. When I got back there today, I had a better look at it.
It turns out to be a virus.
The message contains a zip file named user-EA49943X-activities.zip and after extracting the file is user-EA49943X-activities.exe. File names can be different with each email.
The malware registers a Winlogon notification package so that the installed module is loaded into the address space of winlogon.exe. The files cabpck.dll (known as theMal/TinyDL-T by Sophos), k86.bin and krnlcab.sys (known as the Backdoor:Win32/Haxdoor by Microsoft)) are created in the %System% folder.
A directory %Temp%\msi_setup will be created and a new connection with some host is made: http://****-****.biz/jerken/data.php?trac kid=706172616D3D6 or http://*****.net/22/data.php?trackid=7061 72616D3D636D64266C616E6
so when you get an email with this in the subject: Your internet access is going to get suspended, Delete it.
Don’t take any chances.
If its too late, check this out, and maybe it will help you solve the problem: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=38620.0
5 most important things on the internet.
Have you ever thought that there are important things on the internet? Is the internet important to you? if so, what is the most important part of the internet? Emails, news, social ect.
Here is a list of 5 things that I believe is Very important on the internet.
1. Connection:
Believe it or not, but some people fail to grasp the idea of being connected to “something” before they can use the internet. I had a client who bought a laptop the other day and could not understand why the internet wouldn’t work.
Connection methods could be a range of things: Phone line, bluetooth, gprs, 3G, wireless ect… But there HAS to be some kind of connection with your pc, to the internet.
Make sure that there is connection before you say the internet does not work.
most important thing on the internet nr2: Servers
You may not know it, or believe it, but the internet is controlled to a certain extent. Namely, Servers. You might think of a server as a computer in your office controlling your accounting package and running backups every now and then. These servers are really important for the internet. The are normally much bigger than the standard computer.
On them is Stored: Domains. (among others)
a domain is the last part of your email address or your website address, eg: gitui.com is a domain.
These servers control everything to do with the websites you see. Without these, the internet will not exist.
Then you get a DNS (Domain Name Service) server. A server that has a list of domain names linking “paths” to their particular server. Without the DNS working properly, you will never see or find a website.
Witch brings us to most important thing on the internet nr3: Search engines:
Google, MSN, Yahoo! search, Amazon, topicle which do you choose?
Anyone really, they all do the same thing. Without these you will spend hours upon hours looking for a website address. you will try all sorts of things, but never get to where you want to go. Try it, without using a search engine, try to find some thing.
Its not just searching the internet, Its what you do with those search engines that make the difference. When you search for something and you are looking for a specific phrase, try putting it in quotation marks. “Most important thing on the internet” an see what comes up as apposed to: most important thing on the internet, without quotations.
So thats why search engines are very important.
Next (4th) important thing is: Email
Now I know I’ve mentioned it in nr. 2 but it is really quite important.
In the world today we live in the information age. Information is important, as long as it travels fast and reaches people quickly. Imagine trying to buy something on the internet, Ebay for instance, without emails. You will have to sign up, and wait for your confirmation via the post. You will then reply to that message saying you really live there and are who you are. They will then send it back again to give you your password and other info you need. So with just signing up, it could take a long time.
What do you do when you can’t receive emails? do you stop working? Most of my clients can’t work when there is no emails.
The nr5 most important thing on the internet is: advertising
Yip, thats it. Allot of people use the internet as a medium on making money. www.problogger.net is a very good example. He advertises on his blog and gets money for it. You can advertise on his blog and draw customers to your website and maybe make a sale. In that way advertising is important in 2 ways.
I bet you never thought about advertising being important?
There are many more very important things that play a role on the internet,
Content
Accessibility
Information
Online banking
shopping - for those who can’t get out
Facebook
and it goes on.
That is, for me, the most important things on the internet. It is not in order and it changes for everyone. Depending on your needs, online banking could be the most important. It changes.
What is your most important thing on the internet?
Robert
Posts writen by others.
I got this email last night. The subject was: Robert, for Instant Cash add this Blog Post to your site (takes just 15 min!)
So of corse, I’m a blogged and I check it out quickly. After opening it, I deleted it. For some people these things work, and for others it does not. Within this email the was a already written out blog post for me to copy and paste on my blog. Talking about Clickbank services. It about making money online. This got me thinking, You can have other people write stuff for you. When you come across a blogger that writes articles you like, you can ask him to write one for you. The worst thing that could happen is they can say no.
When they get asked to write something for someone else they often feel honored. you can sweeten the deal by offering that person something extra. A link back to his blog, or anything else you can afford to give that person. Its a great way to get articles written and the other person will be happy ,because his name gets around and he gets more exposure to his blog/website.
So if you are a blogger, and you have no Idea what to write about or if you just want someone else to write something for you. Give it a try. You might like it.
Robert.
Emails: what, why and where?
What are emails? I’m sure most of you know. Electronic Mail. Messages that are sent over the internet to a Email address.
Why would you need an email address? Simple, it makes life easier. Once you have an email address you can send and receive mail instantly. Stay updated with the world, and a whole bunch of other bonuses.
Where? There are so many free email services out there that its almost hard to choose from. You need to have a look at what storage space you have with those email providers. What kind of spam filtering do they have? Is it fast, reliable, user friendly and so on.
I for one, use Gmail.com. I find their interface easy to use, works well and never goes down. It has basically unlimited storage, and the list goes on.
Then you get:
Hotmail
AIM mail
Yahoo mail
Bluebottle
inbox.com
Just about every company in the world today have email addresses. They are normally Name @company .com. thats all great. but you will, most probably, want/need an email address for yourself.
With all mail, you can have it sothat the emails can be displayed on the internet with any computer through a browser. or you can have it set up to download the messages for you to an email client such as Microsoft outlook.
The way emails work:
When you send an email, it does not go directly to that person. there are a few steps involved. Like sending a normal letter. The letter goes from you to the post office, from there it gets sorted and then leaves to go to the recipients post box. Then the recipient needs to go out and fetch the mail sothat he can read it. The same with emails.
when you send and email from your machine, it first goes through what they call a SMTP server. (simple mail transfer protocol) That is used when sending an email. After the SMTP server receives the messages, it then does a quick search to find out where the messages need to go. Once it has found it, it sends the messages to the server on the other side. From there, the recipient needs to “fetch” his mail. Then his outlook client, (or any other) goes out and fetches the messages from its server using POP3 (Post Office Protocol 3)
*note: the SMTP server and the POP3 server can be the same server.
Once the person has received the message he opens it an reads what you have to say to him.
All of this takes place within a couple of seconds. Maybe a minute.
So there you have it. Thats what emails are, and how they work.
Robert
