Infected by Virus / myLot

Singapore, Singapore

October 13, 2015 3:15am CST

What you will do if you received an email from one of your biggest client with an email subject “New Project” with an attached filename “Payment Scheme”. Our account department open the email and downloaded the attached file. Viola! Computer virus starts to spread relentlessly. It automatically forward itself to all the email address you have on your address book. Customers keep on ringing us why we send them virus and the IT department asked us to shutdown all our PC for them to clean off our system. Now, the outlook is open, a tsunami of emails are now flowing in. Haha! Guys be careful in opening an email even if it is from your prestigious client.

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AnjaP

@Rollo1 (16676)

• Boston, Massachusetts

13 Oct 15

That client is probably having big trouble with their computers, too. I suppose that we tend to open emails from certain people without thinking.

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wiLLmaH

@wiLLmaH (8801)

• Singapore, Singapore

14 Oct 15

@indexer IT department should know that right? My boss is jumping up and down yesterday and can see in his eyes the frustration.

John Welford

@indexer (4852)

• Leicester, England

14 Oct 15

@wiLLmaH That is hardly surprising. The solution is to get proper virus protection on all your computers.

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rahul pillai

@rahulvsmokiee (3110)

• Thiruvananthapuram, India

13 Oct 15

Lol i never opens my email. Its far secure for me as i have the best antivirus version with me. Here the anti virus maast, norto, kaspersky etc

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wiLLmaH

@wiLLmaH (8801)

• Singapore, Singapore

15 Oct 15

Whoah! You have a lot of weapon for this computer virus. Haha!

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rahul pillai

@rahulvsmokiee (3110)

• Thiruvananthapuram, India

15 Oct 15

@wiLLmaH lol everyone says its not gud for pc to keep 5 antivirus, but i have to as i will be doomed if my data are corrupted or hacked.

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wiLLmaH

@wiLLmaH (8801)

• Singapore, Singapore

15 Oct 15

@rahulvsmokiee in office we have 2. But i do not know if it really works after that email incident. Haha

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Kevin

@kevin1877uk (36987)

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14 Oct 15

I only open emails from people I know.

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Kevin

@kevin1877uk (36987)

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15 Oct 15

@wiLLmaH I guess so.

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wiLLmaH

@wiLLmaH (8801)

• Singapore, Singapore

15 Oct 15

But Kevin, even some of our close friends are infected by virus too. They are sharing the virus to everyone in their address book.

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sofs

@sofssu (23660)

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13 Oct 15

Happens all the time doesn't it in some form or the other? I hope the message weren't too x rated?

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wiLLmaH

@wiLLmaH (8801)

• Singapore, Singapore

14 Oct 15

The message is not x-rated at all. hehe! It will be more annoying if that will be that case.

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wiLLmaH

@wiLLmaH (8801)

• Singapore, Singapore

14 Oct 15

@sofssu That is the kind of virus we have few years back. I have once the Sadako-virus keep on appearing on my screen.

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sofs

@sofssu (23660)

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14 Oct 15

@wiLLmaH Thank God for that.. I once had x rated messages going out of my comp after I opened a file many years ago .. some of my friends told me about them hesitantly.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (502189)

• Italy

13 Oct 15

The email attachments are the most dangerous treats for a computer.

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wiLLmaH

@wiLLmaH (8801)

• Singapore, Singapore

14 Oct 15

You are correct. But how we would know? The attached file is very enticing "Payment Scheme". :)

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wiLLmaH

@wiLLmaH (8801)

• Singapore, Singapore

14 Oct 15

@LadyDuck Oh Yeah! Even the bank can copy by bogus people.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (502189)

• Italy

14 Oct 15

@wiLLmaH It is always better to check if the email address from where the attachments are sent is a legitimate address. Many time you can discover the trick looking at the details of the sender.

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Cahaya

@cahaya1983 (11116)

• Malaysia

15 Oct 15

I've gotten things like that in my other email account, but never happened to my previous work/department account. It would be disastrous if it did.

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wiLLmaH

@wiLLmaH (8801)

• Singapore, Singapore

15 Oct 15

Disastrous, shameful(we keep on explaining to our clients what really happened) and time consuming (to get rid off the virus).

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Cahaya

@cahaya1983 (11116)

• Malaysia

15 Oct 15

@wiLLmaH I can imagine! All the explanation the company had to do...

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Munhozmib

@munhozmib (3836)

• Sao Paulo, Brazil

13 Oct 15

Hey there, WiLLmaH, That's... Awful. There's no other way to put this. It is a terrible thing to happen, but it does happen. Viruses can be potentially strong in a company's environment. It could ruin the credibility of a whole brand. Where I work, all computers have a strong anti-virus and the mail have a scanner within. Which means that it would be extremely hard for a virus to get in the computers. Though nobody is 100% safe, my company really does its best to keep the computers clean. Hope things get well in there, hahaha. Regards!

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wiLLmaH

@wiLLmaH (8801)

• Singapore, Singapore

14 Oct 15

Now is okay. The IT out down our system, cleaned it up :) I think our company should upgrade our protection system against this viruses that came from emails.

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Morning Girl

@salonga (27775)

• Philippines

13 Oct 15

Oh that is terrible! I wish I won't get such email.

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wiLLmaH

@wiLLmaH (8801)

• Singapore, Singapore

14 Oct 15

Just be careful eve it came from your friends.

kataomoi

@kataomoi (708)

• Japan

13 Oct 15

I am always careful when I open e-mails. One time I opened one with a virus and it destroyed my computer. It was not fun. I can't believe how easy it is to spread viruses nowadays. Hopefully everything is fixed soon at your office.

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wiLLmaH

@wiLLmaH (8801)

• Singapore, Singapore

14 Oct 15

That is why we use apple products. :) They never get infected.