Email from DiscountASP.NET

Discussion in 'Announcements, news, blog posts' started by mjp, Nov 15, 2012.

  1. mjp

    mjp

    If you get a poorly worded email claiming to be from DiscountASP.NET talking about exceeding or increasing your "rate plan," it's not from us.

    It's spam that's going around, and of course you don't want to follow any links it might contain.

    Legitimate billing email sent from us will never contain links and will not sound like it was written by a creepy, low-level Russian* phisher.

    Just saying. ;)

    *No offense to our Russian friends, of course, this spam just happens to link to a bad .ru site.
     
  2. martino

    martino DiscountASP.NET Staff

    Also, if you guys did unfortunately click any of the links in the spam email message, you might want to consider running some of the following virus scans (just in case) to make sure your computer is clean.

    http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwareremove/default.mspx
    http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/
    http://www.safer-networking.org/en/spybotsd/index.html
    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897445.aspx

    I personally use Malwarebytes Anti-Malware on my personal computer at home.

    The program is Free to use and it cost money only if you want to use extra things in it. ;)

    You can download it straight from them here: http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free/
     
  3. mjp

    mjp

    It doesn't appear that there is a virus/malware payload at the destination site, but that could change, of course. So far it appears to be a password phishing operation.

    So if you followed a link from the email, be sure to change your Control Panel password. Right now.

    We aren't alone, they targeted others as well, such as CloudFlare.
     
  4. mjp

    mjp

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