WARNING: Spoofed SIGGRAPH 2005 Email Attacks

oXYnary

I keep getting test and mails from a @smithbucklin.com

ejobe@smithbucklin.com
SIGGRAPH_2005@smithbucklin.com

First two were about paper/animation acceptance. The first one was titled "Test: Participate at SIGGRAPH 2005", whilst the next was titled about "Participate at SIGGRAPH 2005".

I have images turned off, but the gifs used did access the real Siggraph site.

Last one had:
"Hey, dude, it's me ^_^ "

Message:
"Looking forward for a response :P

password for archive: #####"

With
an attached "document.zip" with an jkgqgdxus.scr file in it (virus scanned clean, but didnt open it none the less)

I AFAIK shouldnt be on any list like this.

I finally after posting on cgtalk attempted to open the archive to at least prove concretely one way or another. It certainly was a beagle.h virus which my realtime caught.

So please note, if you get any emails about siggraph_2005 that are not from Siggraph.. promptly DELETE!

Its also kinda sad that a virus maker has so much time to try to attack the CG community.

bearkub

As a side note, if you ever get an unsolicited email that has a "secure" zip attachment, 99.999999999% of the time it will be a virus and you should not open it.

KDR_11k

I'd say 100%, there's no reason to use a password on an archive and put it in plain text into the email except for hiding the archive's content from automated scanning systems.