Phony Emails from Car-Seat.Org with Virus Attached

Admin · Mar 4, 2004

I have recently received a few emails from addresses like "administration@car-seat.org" or "management@car-seat.org". These emails threaten that your account will be disabled for some reason unless you read and follow the instructions in an attachment.

These emails are phony, and the attachment is probably a virus. They were not sent by Car-Seat.Org, but the forged headers make it appear that they were.

Please delete any suspicious emails. Car-Seat.Org rarely sends emails to users, and never any with attachments of any kind. In addition, user email addresses are never shared, sold or otherwise given to any other person or agency.

Thank you for visiting, and apologies for any emails you receive.

Robert · Mar 6, 2004

This virus is running rampand all over the place. I've been told if you get it, it goes to your e-mail address list and takes off from there. It ramdonly goes to your addresses looking important. In the e-mail it requests you to open a zip file with a password the e-mail gives it. At this point do not open it. Place it in the trash and empty your trash right away.

Admin · Mar 6, 2004

This virus is pretty crafty. "Management" and "Administration" usernames are not assigned to anyone and have never been used. Today, I received another email from "support" saying that many viruses had been detected being sent from the server. Included was an attachment with a program that would supposedly remove the offending virus