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	<title>Comments on: SMS True Date Service / Irreal Dating scam</title>
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	<description>Gunnlaugur Þór Briem</description>
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		<title>By: Zaira</title>
		<link>http://fugato.net/2006/06/10/trojan-trickery/#comment-31988</link>
		<dc:creator>Zaira</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 23:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I'm Zaira, from Spain. I don't know what are you talking about, but i would like to learn icelandic with people from iceland, and i see all of you are from iceland. could you agred me on your msn? Thank you very much. My msn is:
zaira.mm@hotmail.com
bye.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m Zaira, from Spain. I don&#8217;t know what are you talking about, but i would like to learn icelandic with people from iceland, and i see all of you are from iceland. could you agred me on your msn? Thank you very much. My msn is:<br />
<a href="mailto:zaira.mm@hotmail.com">zaira.mm@hotmail.com</a><br />
bye.</p>
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		<title>By: Computer Security Research - McAfee Avert Labs Blog</title>
		<link>http://fugato.net/2006/06/10/trojan-trickery/#comment-9284</link>
		<dc:creator>Computer Security Research - McAfee Avert Labs Blog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] While the name is catchy, don&#8217;t be misled, it&#8217;s actually based on a real event. A number of SMS messages were sent out to users in Iceland and Australia telling them they would be charged $2 a day for membership on a dating website. Victims attempting to &#8220;unsubscribe&#8221; from the site and daily charge get their computers infected with a backdoor trojan. The South Australia Office of Consumer and Business Affairs (OCBA) even put out a warning to consumers about the scam. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] While the name is catchy, don&#8217;t be misled, it&#8217;s actually based on a real event. A number of SMS messages were sent out to users in Iceland and Australia telling them they would be charged $2 a day for membership on a dating website. Victims attempting to &#8220;unsubscribe&#8221; from the site and daily charge get their computers infected with a backdoor trojan. The South Australia Office of Consumer and Business Affairs (OCBA) even put out a warning to consumers about the scam. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Tecno Blog &#187; El &#8220;phishing&#8221; muta y se convierte en &#8220;vishing&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://fugato.net/2006/06/10/trojan-trickery/#comment-2987</link>
		<dc:creator>Tecno Blog &#187; El &#8220;phishing&#8221; muta y se convierte en &#8220;vishing&#8221;</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jul 2006 18:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] SMS True Date Service / Irreal Dating scam fugato.net/2006/06/10/trojan-trickery/ [...]</description>
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		<title>By: GÞB</title>
		<link>http://fugato.net/2006/06/10/trojan-trickery/#comment-2664</link>
		<dc:creator>GÞB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2006 21:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Just in case it's not clear: don't run the program. There is no mess to get out of.

You don't need to call your phone company. (They almost certainly have nothing to tell you, and do not need any information from you to resolve this.)

All you need to do is ignore the sms and forget about it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just in case it&#8217;s not clear: don&#8217;t run the program. There is no mess to get out of.</p>
<p>You don&#8217;t need to call your phone company. (They almost certainly have nothing to tell you, and do not need any information from you to resolve this.)</p>
<p>All you need to do is ignore the sms and forget about it.</p>
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		<title>By: Stefania R.</title>
		<link>http://fugato.net/2006/06/10/trojan-trickery/#comment-2663</link>
		<dc:creator>Stefania R.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2006 19:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Heh, Im Icelandic too, I got this last night, quite irritating to know something would pop up like that, and even tell ya to run a program before getting out of the mess... well, it made me think about it. Thought about calling my phonecompany go get some idea of what was going on. Havent called yet though for some reason.  

So this spreads further than just the local island?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Heh, Im Icelandic too, I got this last night, quite irritating to know something would pop up like that, and even tell ya to run a program before getting out of the mess&#8230; well, it made me think about it. Thought about calling my phonecompany go get some idea of what was going on. Havent called yet though for some reason.  </p>
<p>So this spreads further than just the local island?</p>
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		<title>By: Daniel</title>
		<link>http://fugato.net/2006/06/10/trojan-trickery/#comment-2656</link>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2006 23:49:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I live in Iceland and got the Irreal SMS also this morning! I never put my phone number to their site to "unsubscribe" because from the phone company they confirmed as well that this is a spam.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I live in Iceland and got the Irreal SMS also this morning! I never put my phone number to their site to &#8220;unsubscribe&#8221; because from the phone company they confirmed as well that this is a spam.</p>
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		<title>By: GÞB</title>
		<link>http://fugato.net/2006/06/10/trojan-trickery/#comment-2654</link>
		<dc:creator>GÞB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2006 19:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Not everyone --- I haven't received it myself. But a lot of people have; &lt;a href="http://mbl.is/mm/frettir/togt/frett.html?nid=1208562" rel="nofollow"&gt;it was covered on mbl.is today&lt;/a&gt;. Good to know I've helped someone!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not everyone &#8212; I haven&#8217;t received it myself. But a lot of people have; <a href="http://mbl.is/mm/frettir/togt/frett.html?nid=1208562" rel="nofollow">it was covered on mbl.is today</a>. Good to know I&#8217;ve helped someone!</p>
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		<title>By: Stephen</title>
		<link>http://fugato.net/2006/06/10/trojan-trickery/#comment-2652</link>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Is everyone in Iceland getting spammed by this? I just got it delivered today and was very suspicious. Thankfully this article confirmed it. Thanks for the heads up.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is everyone in Iceland getting spammed by this? I just got it delivered today and was very suspicious. Thankfully this article confirmed it. Thanks for the heads up.</p>
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		<title>By: Andie</title>
		<link>http://fugato.net/2006/06/10/trojan-trickery/#comment-2651</link>
		<dc:creator>Andie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks, I google searched this and found the heads-up. I thought my baby might have logged onto something cos he'd just been playing with my phone when that sms turned up. The site looks very dodgy when the only thing you can do is unsubscribe... no login, no password or anything! How can we get'em?!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks, I google searched this and found the heads-up. I thought my baby might have logged onto something cos he&#8217;d just been playing with my phone when that sms turned up. The site looks very dodgy when the only thing you can do is unsubscribe&#8230; no login, no password or anything! How can we get&#8217;em?!!</p>
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		<title>By: Lisa</title>
		<link>http://fugato.net/2006/06/10/trojan-trickery/#comment-2650</link>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2006 04:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for the article on this - I nearly 'unsubscribed', but when I saw the .exe file I decided to do a quick Google search before doing so. You've saved my system!
I hate viruses too, especially ones as insidious and angst-generating as this, even before it infects your system!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for the article on this - I nearly &#8216;unsubscribed&#8217;, but when I saw the .exe file I decided to do a quick Google search before doing so. You&#8217;ve saved my system!<br />
I hate viruses too, especially ones as insidious and angst-generating as this, even before it infects your system!</p>
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		<title>By: GÞB</title>
		<link>http://fugato.net/2006/06/10/trojan-trickery/#comment-2610</link>
		<dc:creator>GÞB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jun 2006 18:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why ónefnd? No need to be embarrassed; I'm sure you're not alone. : )

Your computer may well still be infected. Any number of trojans may have been installed, so even if one was found and removed by your virus software, that's not much of an assurance. You could try another virus package, and also run &lt;a href="http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/RootkitRevealer.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;RootkitRevealer&lt;/a&gt; to see if it turns anything up. But even then you can't be sure.

It's also possible that there's nothing there. Windows often does a fine job of slowing down and getting unstable by itself, without any help from viruses.

The only real way of knowing is by saving your data somewhere else, formatting your hard disk, setting up Windows from scratch, and fetching your data back. And hope none of your Word documents got infected ... I believe that's less common nowadays anyway.

That's as sure as you can get, but that costs plenty of time and hair. (A common workaround is to make it somebody else's time and hair, which tends to cost either money or a friendship.)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why ónefnd? No need to be embarrassed; I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re not alone. : )</p>
<p>Your computer may well still be infected. Any number of trojans may have been installed, so even if one was found and removed by your virus software, that&#8217;s not much of an assurance. You could try another virus package, and also run <a href="http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/RootkitRevealer.html" rel="nofollow">RootkitRevealer</a> to see if it turns anything up. But even then you can&#8217;t be sure.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s also possible that there&#8217;s nothing there. Windows often does a fine job of slowing down and getting unstable by itself, without any help from viruses.</p>
<p>The only real way of knowing is by saving your data somewhere else, formatting your hard disk, setting up Windows from scratch, and fetching your data back. And hope none of your Word documents got infected &#8230; I believe that&#8217;s less common nowadays anyway.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s as sure as you can get, but that costs plenty of time and hair. (A common workaround is to make it somebody else&#8217;s time and hair, which tends to cost either money or a friendship.)</p>
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		<title>By: ónefnd</title>
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		<dc:creator>ónefnd</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Æ hvað ég hata sjálfan mig! I should have gone to this site before unsubscribing. I think my computer's been infected, but the thing is, right after i unsubscribed, my antivirus program immediately cleaned the trojan that got in, and i did some full-time scan, and found no more viruses. Is my computer still infected? Coz it's runing quite slower now, and there have been times when it got frozen. I hate viruses!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Æ hvað ég hata sjálfan mig! I should have gone to this site before unsubscribing. I think my computer&#8217;s been infected, but the thing is, right after i unsubscribed, my antivirus program immediately cleaned the trojan that got in, and i did some full-time scan, and found no more viruses. Is my computer still infected? Coz it&#8217;s runing quite slower now, and there have been times when it got frozen. I hate viruses!</p>
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