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Barry Attwood
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1411
From: Enfield, U.K.
Registered: Aug 2003

posted October 08, 2014 10:18 AM

A friend of mine was sent an email perporting to be from Classic Home Cinema asking him to review a new release, DO NOT OPEN IT as he said it contained a Virus, luckily his anti-virus software managed to handle it, but be careful.

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Tom Photiou
Film God

Posts: 4837
From: Plymouth U.K
Registered: Dec 2003

posted October 08, 2014 10:37 AM

Ah right, I saw this on another thread so I will look out for it.
Does Phil know about this?

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Barry Attwood
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1411
From: Enfield, U.K.
Registered: Aug 2003

posted October 08, 2014 11:27 AM

Tom,

I've emailed Phil to tell him about it, not heard back yet though!

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Nigel Higgins
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 543
From: Saffron walden.united kingdom
Registered: Jun 2014

posted October 08, 2014 11:27 AM

Thanks barry ive deleted it now .

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Osi Osgood
Film God

Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005

posted October 08, 2014 12:10 PM

Thanks Barry! I've deleted it as well. Apparantly, someone who knows film collectors has sent that out. It sounds like someone might have hacked Phil's own records (e-mails and such). Yes, definitely, Phil needs to know!

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Nigel Higgins
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 543
From: Saffron walden.united kingdom
Registered: Jun 2014

posted October 08, 2014 12:54 PM

Hard to belive that someone has targeted film collectors we are only a small group of people enjoying a hobby but yet someone wants to destroy our hardrives .

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Steve Klare
Film Guy

Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted October 08, 2014 01:04 PM

Usually viruses aren't specifically targeted, but cast out into the wild to harm whoever gets in the way.

To me it's like the people that spray paint graffitti: the question is "why"?

-isn't there anything better to do with your time?

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Flavio Stabile
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 707
From: Roma, Italia
Registered: Feb 2005

posted October 08, 2014 01:40 PM

I received this email, and I'm convinced that this is a phishing activity. Infact the author of the email invites to click on a link and asks to insert your email and password, to read a shared document on Google drive!
Beware, don't insert any personal data, because again, in my opinion, someone want to steal our personal data...

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Nigel Higgins
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 543
From: Saffron walden.united kingdom
Registered: Jun 2014

posted October 08, 2014 01:44 PM

yes youre right steve a bit off topic but i saw some old buildings today and all windows had been smashed dont know what makes people think they have to do it strange ,but yes same with virus ,just thought a bit odd that they had targeted us the film collectors as used phils name as bait ,but when asked to log into the site alarm bells ring.

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