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"Virus Hoax:
Malicious Code Example"
Virus Hoax Warnings: Page 19
of 39
Blue Mountain Cards
March 1999
Recently Blue Mountain Cards was the target of false warnings that
opening a greeting card on their website would cause systems to
crash. Below is a statement from the Executive Director of Blue
Mountain Cards. Jared Schutz, Executive Director Blue Mountain Arts
"It is very frustrating and difficult for us to dispel these rumors,
but please help us in doing so by passing this email along to your
friends and spreading the word that there is no way that
bluemountain.com can spread a virus. Our electronic greeting cards
are simply web pages that you view with your browser. Our email
notifications are only text messages without any attached files.
When someone sends or receives cards from our site, they do not
actually download to their computer any file that might contain a
virus. We are worried that these rumors are hurting our free card
efforts, and hope that you can help us set the record straight."
http://www.bluemountain.com
April 2003
Some miscreant has decided to make this hoax true by creating a
virus that appears to be an e-card from Blue Mountain Cards. If you
get an e-mail message that says you have an e-card from someone and
the card is a link back to the Bluemountain.com website, it is
probably a real e-card. For example, the following is an e-card I
sent to myself. The link back to Bluemountain is in blue. Subject:
Hi, I sent you an eCard from BlueMountain.com To:
hoaxmaster@ciac.org
To view your eCard, choose from the options below.
Click on the following link.
http://www.bluemountain.com/view.pd?i=64039350&m=8658&rr=y&source=
bma999
OR
Copy and paste the above link into your web browser's "address"
window.
OR
Enter the following eCard Number, 640393508658, on our Card Pick Up
Window at http://www.bluemountain.com/findit.pd
If you have any comments or questions, please visit
http://www.bluemountain.com/customer/index.pd?source=bma999
Thanks for using BlueMountain.com.
On the other hand, if the message contains an executable file
attachment such as BlueMountainCard.pif shown below in red, don't
click on the attachment as it is probably the w32.HLLW.Cult@mm
virus. Subject: Hi, I sent you an eCard from BlueMountain.com
To view your eCard, open the attachment
If you have any comments or questions, please visit
http://www.bluemountain.com/customer/index.pd
Thanks for using BlueMountain.com.
BlueMountaineCard.pif
Copyright 2004 by Jay Jennings
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