• Ikea Warning

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    I’ve just received what looks like a legitimate email from Ikea Home Depot announcing a new Ikea Home Planner software with a zip attachment. The email comes complete with legitimate Ikea logos. Creation date is today, 21st. January 2009.

    None of my AV programs picked it up, but, it’s a trojan. I’ve run it on one of my isolated test machines. Haven’t had time yet to detect exactly what it is doing, but, presumably it’s another one of those email address grabbers.

    If you get one of those emails, delete it, don’t open the zip file at all !

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    • #1143096

      Thanks, Claude. Though I’d be suspicious anyway, ’cause I know of Ikea and I know of Home Depot, but I haven’t heard that the two had merged. wink
      Mark

    • #1143097

      I Killed one of those a couple of weeks ago, since I knew IKEA could not have my email address. On the same day I also got a fake Hallmark Card, but the anti-virus software picked that up.

    • #1143105

      Home-assembly, flat-pack viruses? – they’re clever those Swedes grin

      (They actually refer to it as a scam.)

      • #1143112

        “Home-assembly, flat-pack viruses?”

        yep, not only do you get infected, you have to pay for it, carry it home and then assemble it yourself to get infected. grin But if you are lucky, the flatpack will be missing some parts and the virus will fail to function and fall over at first use …

        Thanks Claude, for the heads up.

        • #1143136

          rofl And you need a #15 Torx driver to assemble it.

          • #1143208

            And there are still million’s of users getting infected!!!

            StuartR

            • #1143215

              Yep – I think I’m one of them….

            • #1143221

              rofl

            • #1143237

              Since it’s the “Ikea Virus”, wouldn’t it rename your computer something more Scandanavian ??? innocent

            • #1143255

              I bought a table from Ikea named “Dave”. It’s handy when people are looking for something to tell them, “It’s on Dave.”

            • #1143524

              It’s really hard to believe that in this day and age, there are STILL people who will open an unsolicited attachment sent to them in email! Whew…

            • #1143241

              My old uncle used to say “my name’s Billy … not silly”

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