Virus from Russia ??

[ashok]

I just got an email saying " for you from Russia ". There is a 4.37 Mb file attached in .rar format. It says RoomEQwizard V4.11 .

I don't plan to open it. Is this a virus ? Anyone else got this email. Senders name is Russian. But that doesn't mean a thing.
By the way RoomEQwizard is from a person called John on Hometheatershack I think.

 

[SY]

Never have unprotected sex with Haitian prostitutes. Never call a large gentleman holding a gun "***face." And never open an attachment from someone you don't know (and even then, caution is advised since friends can be spoofed).

 

[kevinkr]

It could be anything.. It might even be the software it is represented to be, but I would just delete it..

 

[jacco vermeulen]

Never Never Never

Never throw a Turkish gentleman through a window after he kicked your dog, when his brother can return with a loaded pistol.

 

[SY]

YouTube - jack bruce-never tell your mother shes out of tune

 

[godfrey]

Run it in sandboxie and see what it does (or tries to do). I had big fun with a virus a couple of days ago like that - played with it for awhile, then killed it and threw it out.

 

[jacco vermeulen]

You tube

YouTube - Lloyd Cole - Like A Broken Record - no Top+ (25/09/2010)

 

[c2cthomas]

Never throw a Turkish gentleman through a window after he kicked your dog, when his brother can return with a loaded pistol.

The Turk's luv to use their big *** swords - and take their time - when getting a little personal "payback". BTW - they are REALLY GOOD with those swords!

My Dad served with them during the Korean War and had photo's and stories about how they would sit around the campfire - get about half loaded up and then start doing folk dances with their swords and sparring with each other. Turkish Marines - I strongly suggest you give them your fullest respect. BTW - they are super guys and I do intend this in a positive manner.

 

[jacco vermeulen]

Thomas, my line was meant in a figurative speech.

(though anecdotal)

 

[c2cthomas]

Hey jacco - I'm just having some fun too - heck that's what we are here for!!!!! So - no prob's with me. OTOH - keep a look out in your rear view mirror!!!

 

[jacco vermeulen]

Papa can chase me anytime (would make a welcome change)

Speaking of John the coke Earl of Duke : George Clooney Possible for John DeLorean Role - Hannah Elliott - De Luxe - Forbes
One i'd love to see made.

 

[c2cthomas]

Papa can chase me anytime (would make a welcome change)

Like in this photo that Vix posted over in the off topic thread??

 

[jacco vermeulen]

Yep, the Ayatollah of Rock and Rolla, Warrior of the Wasteland.

 

[kevinahcc20]

Never....attend a gunfight with a handgun, the caliber of which does not begin with ".4"

 

[LAJ]

The .rar indicates it is a compressed file. You'll have to de-compress it before you can run it. And then your virus-scanning program on your PC should catch it. From Russia I would doubt it is a virus. Most of the viruses are coming out of China.
If it turns out to be a virus, you can simply re-format your hard drive, reload your OS, and start out all over again. I do it all the time.

 

[johansen]

From Russia I would doubt it is a virus. Most of the viruses are coming out of China.

ROFLMAO...

probably not a virus but a botnet.

 

[kevinahcc20]

If it turns out to be a virus, you can simply re-format your hard drive, reload your OS, and start out all over again. I do it all the time.

 

[Peckerwood]

According to a paper I read in Wikileaks the worlds leader in all things both computer and illegal is Russia. Those guys are actually brilliant from what I read. I would not play with it if I were you. Unless you are brilliant at all things computer and illegal too.

 

[firechief]

Dont **** into the wind. Dont pull the mask off the old lone Ranger.----- Oh man this could be a whole thread onto itself. Are we in the lounge?

 

[Peckerwood]

If it turns out to be a virus, you can simply re-format your hard drive, reload your OS, and start out all over again. I do it all the time.

I do too and that is what you would have to do but there can still be huge problems. They could get your bank account numbers, social security number, passwords to everything you use a password for online, get everything you type on your keyboard and set up your computer to be part of a child pornography network that you would never know about and while a format would wipe that out the FBI could already have you marked for a raid. In addition even after you wiped it out they could do it again right away especially if they have you on their list of vulnerable computers to take over. There are about a thousand other things they could do too. It is the Russians who do all of that kind of stuff according to what I read on Wikileaks.

A format won't wipe out a boot sector virus either.