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Sunday, April 16. 2006

Virus attachment spoofing easyDNS email

We have isolated an email message which seems to be spoofing an email from easyDNS to a member, which reads as follows:

From: info@easydns.com

To: x

Subject: DETECTED Online User Violation

Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 00:22:50 +0200

Dear user peter,

It has come to our attention that your Easydns User Profile ( x ) records are out of date. For further details see the attached document.

Thank you for using Easydns!

The Easydns Support Team

+++ Attachment: No Virus (Clean)

+++ Easydns Antivirus - www.easydns.com

with an attachment called account-report.zip.

This email is not from us and the attachment is likely a virus or a trojan.

A few important points come to mind:

We will never send out an email attachment for the user to open
We will not instruct you to "follow this link" to update your account profile
easyDNS publishes SPF data for the easydns.com domain

Posted by Mark Jeftovic in Status at 11:29 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

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Does this have anything to do with why my hostnames aren't resolving?!

#1 Joe on 2006-04-17 22:03 (Reply)

this would have nothing to do with host name resolution.
If you could, please send an email to support@easydns.com with your domain name and concerns and it will be addressed post haste.

thank you
sandy.

#2 sandy on 2006-04-20 12:46 (Reply)

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