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Geek Culture / maybe virus ?.

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henrikh2008
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Posted: 30th Sep 2013 20:43
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I recently recieved a strange email in yahoo.
The email said "nebula beautiful laguna"
bla, bla , bla..

The only thing i did, was reading the email,
not open any atachement or link.
I dont know the sender of the email.
Basically the email only contains text, big blue text
( typically a hacker spam thing?).
So it in Html.
I am wondering if the email contains any javascript
to help transport the virus of some kind.
What i mean, is it possible to get infected just
by reading a yahoo email ?
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henrikh2008
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Posted: 30th Sep 2013 22:20
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The virus type is properly "drive by emails" type.
Acording to many website, the virus stealth can
penetrete any known antivirus system!
That's mean you can't get rid of the virus, or
try'in to locate the the virus among 1000000 of
files.
Properly the best way is to reformat my hdd, and reinstall every
thing from scratch!.


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Indicium
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Posted: 30th Sep 2013 22:41
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You're fine. JavaScript won't execute in an email.


They see me coding, they hating. http://indi-indicium.blogspot.co.uk/
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henrikh2008
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Posted: 30th Sep 2013 23:49
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But acording to some websites they do, javadcript
will execute behind html or so i have been told.
Usually all my strange email goes to the spam
filter / folder in yahoo.
this one appeared in the inbox.
Hmmmmmm, maybe i should forget reading
all the crap websites is telling me, regarding virus.
ok, so i can properly do some internet shoping
safely!.
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Indicium
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Posted: 1st Oct 2013 00:11
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Did you view it in a browser? If yes you have nothing to worry about, apparently Outlook will run any JavaScript but even then I don't see how much damage JavaScript can do.

Can JS even manipulate anything outside the browser?


They see me coding, they hating. http://indi-indicium.blogspot.co.uk/
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henrikh2008
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Posted: 1st Oct 2013 00:46
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Yes i am using Yahoo email service in a browser.
Outlook is insecure, i don't use it.
1 year ago, i was infected with a virus , that did infectet my hdd,
wiped out the whole harddisk.

Quote: " Can JS even manipulate anything outside the browser? "


I use to play around with javascript and learn
the basic stuff, No there isnt a way for javascript
to work outside the browser other than downloading or
uploading files from a webserver, to , in this case a user
requesting a download or, doing a upload of files.
Javascript can even silent send small .bat files from
a host server to a user, even if the user did'nt do
any requesting downloading files. ( that what you
call payload virus!).
It is unclear, if a virus can infect a user's pc, just
by reading a email ( html emails!). ? email ?!.
Javascript can't read for example , a user's
root directory on his harddisk.
But javascript can transfer files "inbetween"
the host and the specific website, yahoo email ?!.

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henrikh2008
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Posted: 1st Oct 2013 00:57
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Quote: " It is unclear, if a virus can infect a user's pc, just
by reading a email ( html emails!). ? email ?!. "

That is if a user visiting the atacker website,
one would need ( the atacker ) a " body onload"
and Ajax request etc, for download files to the user computer.
unfortunely i have seen it working when visiting
a website (not email) , which i had experince small
.bat or . exe files suddenly appeared in my download folder!.
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henrikh2008
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Posted: 1st Oct 2013 11:26
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ok, i will scan the hdd with norton 360, look
in registry editor system files.
then go happy, i am shure every thing is 100%
ok.

Thank you, Indicium.

Not to concern about virus tall tales.
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