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#335573 - 29/07/2010 01:10

Kaspersky Lab WTF?

gbeer
carpal tunnel

Registered: 17/12/2000
Posts: 2665
Loc: Manteca, California

I received an email from [email protected]

I've never heard of them before receiving the email. Strangely a quick google, generates a page full of on target links for the company. Which I find to be abnormal for just typing in a company name.

Html:

Hello!

Thank you for registering your Kaspersky Lab product!

This email contains your personal ID and the Password to it.

Your current registration data is:

Your Personal ID: omit
Password: omit

To enter your Personal Cabinet, please use the following link:
https://support.kaspersky.com/PersonalCabinet

Do not lose your personal ID (Client ID) as you will need it in the future.

Contact Kaspersky Lab Technical Support at http://support.kaspersky.com to 
purchase additional product or to extend the current Kaspersky Lab product.

Sincerely yours,
Kaspersky Lab

Edited by gbeer (29/07/2010 23:06)

_________________________
Glenn

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#335585 - 29/07/2010 02:36 Re: Kaspersky Lab WTF? [Re: gbeer]
Shonky pooh-bah Registered: 12/01/2002 Posts: 2009 Loc: Brisbane, Australia	Kapersky Labs is actually a fairly well known anti virus vendor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaspersky_Lab I would guess that email is spam/phishing/malware related. Is it HTML? I would guess the link is to somewhere else. Could also be someone trying to discredit them I guess. _________________________ Christian #40104192 120Gb (no longer in my E36 M3, won't fit the E46 M3)
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#335588 - 29/07/2010 02:48 Re: Kaspersky Lab WTF? [Re: Shonky]
tman carpal tunnel Registered: 24/12/2001 Posts: 5528	Phishing or somebody fat fingered entering their email address when they registered on the site.
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#335631 - 29/07/2010 22:52

Re: Kaspersky Lab WTF? [Re: Shonky]

gbeer
carpal tunnel

Registered: 17/12/2000
Posts: 2665
Loc: Manteca, California

Originally Posted By: Shonky

Kapersky Labs is actually a fairly well known anti virus vendor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaspersky_Lab

I would guess that email is spam/phishing/malware related. Is it HTML? I would guess the link is to somewhere else.

Could also be someone trying to discredit them I guess.

Hard to say if it's html with gmail. Showing the source seems to show only text.

Code:

Delivered-To: gkbeer (at) gmail.com
Received: by 10.142.232.16 with SMTP id e16cs197419wfh;
        Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:00:05 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.14.126.198 with SMTP id b46mr2857300eei.34.1280361601961;
        Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:00:01 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <bounce (at) kaspersky.com>
Received: from webserver6.kaspersky-labs.com (webserver6.kaspersky-labs.com [62.213.110.130])
        by mx.google.com with ESMTP id z16si390758eeh.19.2010.07.28.17.00.01;
        Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:00:01 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: neutral (google.com: 62.213.110.130 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of bounce (at) kaspersky.com) client-ip=62.213.110.130;
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=neutral (google.com: 62.213.110.130 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of bounce (at) kaspersky.com) smtp.mail=bounce (at) kaspersky.com
Received: by webserver6.kaspersky-labs.com (Postfix, from userid 800)
	id 083D9154D; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:00:01 +0400 (MSD)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 3.024 (F2.77; T1.27; A2.04; B3.08; Q3.08)
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:55:13 +0400
From: online (at) kaspersky.com
To: gkbeer (at) gmail.com
Subject: Kaspersky Lab Online Activation
Message-Id: <[email protected]>

Edited by drakino (30/07/2010 00:19)
Edit Reason: removed @ to foil online e-mail harvestors

_________________________
Glenn

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#335632 - 29/07/2010 22:55 Re: Kaspersky Lab WTF? [Re: gbeer]
hybrid8 carpal tunnel Registered: 12/11/2001 Posts: 7738 Loc: Toronto, CANADA	Someone likely used your email address on their site. _________________________ Bruno Twisted Melon : Fine Mac OS Software
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#335634 - 29/07/2010 23:06 Re: Kaspersky Lab WTF? [Re: hybrid8]
gbeer carpal tunnel Registered: 17/12/2000 Posts: 2665 Loc: Manteca, California	So if I was evil, I could have a copy of the software. Not, I'm happy with NOD. _________________________ Glenn
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#335635 - 29/07/2010 23:08 Re: Kaspersky Lab WTF? [Re: gbeer]
gbeer carpal tunnel Registered: 17/12/2000 Posts: 2665 Loc: Manteca, California	The earlier post blew the board width. I tried to edit the long line down. But the code frame stayed wide. _________________________ Glenn
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#335636 - 29/07/2010 23:12 Re: Kaspersky Lab WTF? [Re: hybrid8]
tman carpal tunnel Registered: 24/12/2001 Posts: 5528	Looks legitimate and your email address isn't so unusual that nobody else in the world will have one similar at gmail.
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#335637 - 30/07/2010 00:07 Re: Kaspersky Lab WTF? [Re: tman]
Phoenix42 veteran Registered: 21/03/2002 Posts: 1424 Loc: MA but Irish born	drakino - there is a second instance of Glenn's address third line from the bottom.
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#335638 - 30/07/2010 00:20 Re: Kaspersky Lab WTF? [Re: Phoenix42]
drakino carpal tunnel Registered: 08/06/1999 Posts: 7868	There we go, full search and replace this time. Still lots of bots that harvest e-mail addresses from web pages out there.
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#335639 - 30/07/2010 00:39 Re: Kaspersky Lab WTF? [Re: drakino]
Shonky pooh-bah Registered: 12/01/2002 Posts: 2009 Loc: Brisbane, Australia	The IP does resolve to Russia and reverse resolves a kaperskylabs.com address so it appears legit. The username and password are strangely simple (and don't work - tried on a special VM I have). The only other thing is if you click the link (don't!) and it takes you somewhere else. But given the legit source of the email I doubt it. Strange one. _________________________ Christian #40104192 120Gb (no longer in my E36 M3, won't fit the E46 M3)
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#335643 - 30/07/2010 01:50 Re: Kaspersky Lab WTF? [Re: Shonky]
RobotCaleb pooh-bah Registered: 15/01/2002 Posts: 1866 Loc: Austin	Are you surprised that the username and password that he omitted (and indicated so) don't work?
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#335713 - 01/08/2010 02:20 Re: Kaspersky Lab WTF? [Re: RobotCaleb]
Shonky pooh-bah Registered: 12/01/2002 Posts: 2009 Loc: Brisbane, Australia	Oh yeah. Didn't click. _________________________ Christian #40104192 120Gb (no longer in my E36 M3, won't fit the E46 M3)
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