Comments for The Secure Channel

Comment on An official looking e-mail from the IRS may be a virus by John

John — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:51:27 +0000

Try uploading the file/attachment to this virus scanner:
http://www.virustotal.com

Comment on An official looking e-mail from the IRS may be a virus by Heads-up: IRS Spam Now in the Wild — MiPro Unfiltered

Heads-up: IRS Spam Now in the Wild — MiPro Unfiltered — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:38:16 +0000

[…] Deeper research shows that it quite possibly might be a trojan horse that installs a virus; if you read the comments in the previous link, you’ll see different delivery mechanisms. Some are PDFs, some ZIP files, some DOCs. Regardless, it seems as if the object, regardless of its wrapper, installs some sort of malicious payload. […]

Comment on Getting bounces about e-mail that you didn’t send? by Kristin

Kristin — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:17:43 +0000

Thanks, I just discovered this problem on my hotmail account. Hopefully I can get things straightened out.

Comment on Getting bounces about e-mail that you didn’t send? by Milani

Milani — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:07:29 +0000

Thank you! I’m having this problem.

Comment on Troubleshooting problems with remote firewalls by Mark Adams

Mark Adams — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:31:13 +0000

Roop,

Where did you see these messages? When you say that your Internet connection was on the blink, even though you had connection with the primary DNS, do you mean that even though you could resolve a hostname, you couldn’t connect to it? It’s normal for your computer to cache DNS records, so that even if your Internet connection goes down you may be able to resolve the name for awhile. Either way, it sounds more likely that you’re having problems with yout Internet connection than with a virus. I’d recommend contacting your ISP’s technical support.

Comment on Troubleshooting problems with remote firewalls by ROOP KHANNA

ROOP KHANNA — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 05:55:07 +0000

hi, i recently found that my internet connection was on the blink with sudden disconnections even in spite of having established a connection with the primary DNS. the message read something like a “remote firewall was preventing connection with the primary DNS”. could this be a virus or is there some way to fix this problem. would appreciate any help in this regard. am a newbie in hardware and IT matters.

Comment on Getting bounces about e-mail that you didn’t send? by Eric

Eric — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:57:49 +0000

Great article thank you for the clarification!

Comment on An official looking e-mail from the IRS may be a virus by Monique

Monique — Sun, 18 May 2008 10:47:35 +0000

This spam mail is also active in The Netherlands!

Comment on Mobile phone spam: Is it coming? by Anand

Anand — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:10:05 +0000

Yes Mark. Mistake on my part. I assumed that to be the actual number of spams sent till April of this year..It was a prediction for the whole year..

Comment on Mobile phone spam: Is it coming? by Mark Adams

Mark Adams — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:50:45 +0000

Anand, The New York Times reporter said that Ferris Research is estimating 1.5 billion text message spams for 2008, twice what their research showed for 2006. They’re basically predicting what I am, an increase in spam.