KOFALI - Warning do not open Email links

dublinderm


Joined: 26/09/2009
Posts: 538

Message Posted:
18/02/2012 18:00

Hi,



I have just recently received a seemingly inocuous Email from Kofali. The mail contained a link the also seemed very ordinary. On clicking the link my (other) PC was immediately infected with a Spy Bot virus that uses you mail account to distribute spam messages to anyone in your Email listings.



DO NOT OPEN THIS LINK!!!!



Be safe,



DD

MrsSnakes



Joined: 19/12/2008
Posts: 1100

Message Posted:
18/02/2012 18:01

Do you mean Kofali Construction, N Cyprus?

Aljanyoung


Joined: 27/06/2007
Posts: 78

Message Posted:
18/02/2012 18:02

Many thanks for letting everyone know about this, will watch out for this e-mail.

dublinderm


Joined: 26/09/2009
Posts: 538

Message Posted:
18/02/2012 18:59

Kofali Construction North Cyprus is exactly who I meant.



I believe they may be unwitting victims of this scam also.





DD

MrsSnakes



Joined: 19/12/2008
Posts: 1100

Message Posted:
18/02/2012 19:02

Thanks for the information DD.

jenfarrall


Joined: 21/09/2008
Posts: 297

Message Posted:
18/02/2012 22:52

errm,too late :-(,anyone know how i can get rid of this virus please?

Brinsley


Joined: 04/04/2009
Posts: 6858

Message Posted:
18/02/2012 23:28

Msg 6

Antibiotics normaly work!!



Richard

britvic



Joined: 05/09/2008
Posts: 3039

Message Posted:
18/02/2012 23:31

................................LOL!

dublinderm


Joined: 26/09/2009
Posts: 538

Message Posted:
19/02/2012 02:02

Back to top.



This is bl**dly serious.



DD

erolz


Joined: 17/11/2008
Posts: 3456

Message Posted:
19/02/2012 02:10

Dublinderm the first stage to removing a virus would be to identify what virus it is. Hopefull you have some virus protection software on your machine. If the virus has not damaged or disabled this then run a full scan, this should identify the virus. It may also be able to clean it up as well, but depending on the virus software you are using it may not but should at least get it identified. If you do not have virsu protection software on your machine or the virus itself has damaged or is blocking it from running you could try an online virus checker. This is one of the better ones in my opinion

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/uk/

This should if it runs ok at least identify the virus for you.



The ultimate way to clean up a virus would be to do a reinstal of windows / factory reset of your machine but this would loose all your data on it, like photos and word documents and the like. You could back these up but its possible the virus would transfer via such if you are not careful.