October 19, 2009
Beware of SPAM Claiming to Be a UFies.org Update

If you received an email with content similar to the below:


On October 22, 2009 server upgrade will take place. Due to this the system may be offline for approximately half an hour.
The changes will concern security, reliability and performance of mail service and the system as a whole. For compatibility of your browsers and mail clients with upgraded server software you should run SSl certificates update procedure.
This procedure is quite simple. All you have to do is just to click the link provided, to save the patch file and then to run it from your computer location. That's all.

http://updates.ufies.org.secure.digi1adm.org/ssl/id=70140097714-[youremail]@ufies.org-patch[somenumber].exe

Thank you in advance for your attention to this matter and sorry for possible inconveniences.

System Administrator


Please be aware that a) it has nothing to do with UFies and is just a well crafted spam trying to get you to run some random .exe. Don't click it and if there is ever a question, please contact me directly. Also the chances of a server update requiring you to run a .exe on your computer are 0.0%.





Posted by Arcterex at October 19, 2009 09:55 AM
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Not to mention you would never send it out signed as "system administrator", and the english is pretty bad in it (I expect better from Arc), and I never knew that you had a digiladm.org domain, and it would come from Arcterex@ufies.org most likely, not whatever e-mail it did come from (Most likely spoofing as Administrator@ufies.org or [youremail]@ufies.org


Posted by: RoundTop on October 19, 2009 10:23 AM
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