MannInBlackk virus infecting Internet forums.

[MIJ-VI]

I just found this e-mail in my junk folder:

You have just been sent a personal message by MannInBlackk on Acoustic Bass Guitars Discussion Forum.

IMPORTANT: Remember, this is just a notification. Please do not reply to this email.

The message they sent you was:

Hello, friend. There are viruses' activities from your computer in last few days. Strongly recommend you to check your computer. You can find a report about your computer's security and solve every problem with it here: http://w-w-w.virus-total.net/detected /MIJ-VI <-- ATTACK SITE!
Thank you. Forum member.

Reply to this Personal Message here: h-t-t-p://octavebelow.com/smf/index.php?action=pm;sa=send;f=inbox;pmsg=78;quote; u=54"

The spooky thing is that this virus had/has my e-mail address and my forum username. As well I don't recall joining octavebelow.com.

So I did a Google search of the name MannInBlackk and found out that it's infecting (or trying to) a number of other forums.

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&so...=Google+Search

Please make sure your anti-malware is up to date and please don't click the link (which is now disabled in this post) to that attack site if it shows up in your e-mail or as a PM.

Thank you.

[Asa Samuel]

That link doesn't look disabled to me!

Thanks for the heads up.

[MIJ-VI]

Originally Posted by Asa Samuel

That link doesn't look disabled to me!

Thanks for the heads up.

Hi Asa Samuel.

The attack site link (the one in red) is.

Gary

[Asa Samuel]

Originally Posted by MIJ-VI

Hi Asa Samuel.

The attack site link (the one in red) is.

Gary

Ahh, I was looking at the other link

[MIJ-VI]

[MIJ-VI]

Spyware-->ID theft would be my guess.

Firefox + Web Of Trust are two tools useful in averting threats of this type.

Another option for Windows users would be to download the Ubuntu Desktop install.iso (~700 MB) and run Ubuntu as a virtual machine 'guest' OS on VirtualBox (an Open Source PC emulator).

The aim here would be to use Ubuntu to surf the net during Internet virus outbreaks. One's web browser bookmarks could be stored off-line using Xmarks.

Once the Internet virus threat has been neutralized, one could resume using Windows and update one's browser bookmarks with those which have been archived on Xmarks while Ubuntu was used as a temporary web surfing OS.

[john turner]

interesting. we had a user on tb with a similar name getting massive amounts of spam back from us about his attempts to log in and being locked out. apparently someone from the ukraine was trying to hack his account. we ended up banning the responsible ip address.

i'll do a search and make sure there's no other members that belong to tb with similar names.

[L-A]

The best protection is not to download "install.exe" from that site.

[MIJ-VI]

Originally Posted by john turner

interesting. we had a user on tb with a similar name getting massive amounts of spam back from us about his attempts to log in and being locked out. apparently someone from the ukraine was trying to hack his account. we ended up banning the responsible ip address.

i'll do a search and make sure there's no other members that belong to tb with similar names.