Hoax Alert: “Mail Server Report” email virus warning
Here we go with another hoax email. Just to provide a little background: The “Mail Server Report” virus is real and began circulating in 2006.
The original email that began circulating in 2006 warned of a real virus threat. It had an attachment that was a .ZIP file which contained the actual virus and the email attempts to fool you into opening that .ZIP file. When you do, you are infected with what is known as the Stration.bb or W32/Stration-X worm. This worm distributes itself by searching your computer for email addresses and then sending itself to them.
Another version of the “Mail Server” virus warning began circulating in 2008, however, that is a HOAX. It does a good job of confusing people which may be its intent, but the best practice is to DELETE any email that you do not recognize or know who it is from. Also, be very wary of any emails with attached .ZIP files unless you are expecting them and know what they contain.
If you believe that you have been infected with this or any other malware then please feel free to contact us at CPU Help and we will be happy to assist.
Have a self mailing virus that completely has bugged my e-mail, It is an advertisment for weourme.net about merchandise for sale. it has sent itself through the vacation notice on my email. any help as to info to get rid of this agrivation. Thanks. By the way I have 8 pages of return from postmaster sendings.
Hello Jim, Sorry to take so long to reply, we get so many spam comments on our blog.
Whereas weourme.net appears to be a legitimate website, we have no record of a specific email virus mailing out Ads for that site.
What I would recommend is that you download a copy of MalwareBytes (you can get it at CNET’s http://www.download.com), install it, update it and run it a couple of times even in Safe Mode. Let us know if this helps.
CPU Help team
I have the same spam emails for the website weourme.net being sent from my email acct. Haven’t found a fix yet.
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