Security Warning to about DK Parody Site

[Tinoire]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php#82245

Just recieved this warning from the DK HQ's.

From: "Kucinich Virtual Outreach Coordinator" |
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 17:34:39 -0500
Subject: Warning re kucinich.com and spam reports

We got the following message in from a Kucinich supporter and I wanted to share it and another caution:

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A warning should be sent out to members about kucinich.com - when I posted a message to this nuisance web site two things happened:

1) I got a spam message back from the webmaster and

2) I noticed that a message had been sent from my computer to the web site.

After going back and forth with this email train with the webmaster, I used the Outlook 2000 feature to check for "related" messages and found that two totally unrelated messages had also been linked in from my server based personal folders. Both of these unrelated emails were from another unrelated email chain, but THEY WERE THE ONLY TWO MESSAGES IN MY FOLDER THAT MENTIONED GEORGE BUSH in the body of the message. This was a company based email server to which access is limited only to emails. (By the way although difficult to prosecute,
this is a crime that was committed here, as it was company property.)

While I have no proof that dirty tricks are coming from this particular web site, I suspect a hack is in the mix there somewhere and the timing is very suspicious.

I would recommend that kucinich.com be avoided / excluded / filtered and that [e-mail] be added to spam filters to prevent the introduction of any email related search viruses. I have already instructed XXXX (edited to protect supporter supplying this information) network personnel to take this precaution.

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So folks – block those cookies and be careful out there. Make certain your anti-virus programs are up-to-date and consider the installation of a firewall and an anti-trojan if you don’t have one. If you are not sure what a firewall or anti-trojan program is, here is one of many sites on the net that offers some explanations.

http://www.firewallguide.com/

Claudia Slate
e-mail edited
Virtual Outreach Coordinator
Kucinich in 2004 Campaign
www.kucinich.us

[alfredo]

1. thanks for the info.

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[greyl]

2. It is a crap site, but what is claimed in the warning is crap too. nt

[greyl]

3. What address did the warning come from?

Are you sure it isn't a disguised advertisement for the crap parody site?

[Tinoire]

5. No--- I got it from DK HQs

It was sent out to all the DK campaigners. I have a special yahoo account just for that so this was no joke...

I removed the address and e-mail personally because I don't like posting other people's info on DU.

[papau]

4. Same thing happen to me today - my email address stollen to send spam

a very good firewall and trojan program did not prevent the theft!

[Tinoire]

6. Yikes. Did you find anything? Any suggestions if this happens to us?

I recently found a backdoor trojan and a few virused on my computer and I am like you- extra careful. Somehow these things got past Zone Alarm and my Virus checker. My virus checker was then disabled which I didn't notice and eventually my system got so corrupted that Windows wouldn't even boot or re-install!

A nightmare but ChillEB was kind enough to spend a few hours helping me retrieve my files by installing a new hard-drive as the master and making the old one the slave.

I don't wish this on anyone!

How did you notice the e-mail address theft? And did you find any weird files?