[RTTY] FW: QRZ.com virus

Doug McDuff w4ox at bellsouth.net
Sat Dec 31 05:31:42 PST 2011


I replied privately to you as I attached a screen shot of the 
information provided by Norton.

To otherwise answer your inquiry:

WV4ME, and I believe ES1AJ.

IE

Norton 360

Malicious Toolkit Website 9.

Doug, W4OX

On 12/31/2011 1:19 PM, David Levine wrote:
> And the useful & important info - what were the calls? What web 
> browser are you using? What anti virus program/suite are you using? 
> What did it say it blocked?
>
> David - K2DSL
>
> On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 8:04 AM, Doug McDuff <w4ox at bellsouth.net 
> <mailto:w4ox at bellsouth.net>> wrote:
>
>     Norton advised me and blocked an attack while I was simply looking
>     up a
>     call.  In fact, this has happened on at least two occasions in the
>     last
>     few days.  In neither instance did I click on any ad.
>
>     73, Doug W4OX
>
>     On 12/31/2011 12:29 AM, David VE3VID wrote:
>     > From: ve3vid at hotmail.com <mailto:ve3vid at hotmail.com>
>     > To: wa8hc1 at charter.net <mailto:wa8hc1 at charter.net>
>     > Subject: RE: [RTTY] QRZ.com virus
>     > Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:28:58 -0500
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>     > Is QRZ.com still infected?  How were you picking up the
>     mal-ware?  A QRZ search?
>     > David
>     >
>     > http://www.ve3vid.webs.com/
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >> From: WA8HC1 at charter.net <mailto:WA8HC1 at charter.net>
>     >> To: rtty at contesting.com <mailto:rtty at contesting.com>
>     >> Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:16:03 -0500
>     >> Subject: [RTTY] QRZ.com virus
>     >>
>     >> I think this is a Scareware type attack.. Scared the H___ out
>     of me.. Trying to sell bogus Anti Virus software..  I’ve had it
>     happen also from other sites.. The fix has been to reset your
>     computer to a safe start point a couple of days before this happened..
>     >>
>     >> GL,
>     >>
>     >> Harry N Coates
>     >> WA8HC1 at charter.net <mailto:WA8HC1 at charter.net>
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