Attention All Members....Please Read Immediately

southerngale · #1 Postby **southerngale** » Fri May 21, 2004 4:48 am

Please disregard the email you received overnight from "storm2kupdates@yahoo.com" and if you haven't already, please do not click the links in the email. This was NOT sent by the storm2k administrators. Further information may be provided later.

Suzi Q · #2 Postby **Suzi Q** » Fri May 21, 2004 9:24 am

Well that's just great seeing as I've already downloaded it and am now having a crap load of trouble with my computer. Is there any possibility there is a virus hidden in there somewhere?

Ok, I just did a complete virus scan and nothing was found. Could be just running slow due to strike at SBC ( my ISP). How the heck did they manage to get all our email addresses and send this crud to us? Why do I smell the word "hacker"?

Sorry, just freaks me out when I can't even trust the content from S2K in my email. Dang. :cry:

AirmaN · #3 Postby **AirmaN** » Fri May 21, 2004 5:35 pm

I almost undeleted it and clicked the link, thanks bunches for the warning! Suzi Q, try updating your virus scanner, then running it.

#4 Postby **coriolis** » Fri May 21, 2004 11:35 pm

I get bogus ebay messages too. Now we have S2K spoof emails too!

tom_5440 · #5 Postby **tom_5440** » Sat May 22, 2004 12:50 am

What does it do and how do you get rid of it?

#6 Postby **myred** » Sat May 22, 2004 6:42 am

If anyone like myself ran the stormtracker.exe file, and if you are running nt, win2k, xp. Open task manger and kill the stormtracker.exe process. Even though it seems like the file is not doing anything it is running resident in memory until you kill the process. From what I can tell it looks like some type of logging program. I have no idea what it is logging.

AirmaN · #7 Postby **AirmaN** » Sat May 22, 2004 11:49 am

Most likely passwords and accounts. just be sure not to purchase anything online with a credit card or anything, until you are positive it's gone.

Optical · #8 Postby **Optical** » Mon May 24, 2004 2:06 pm

Oh damn... I ran it... Please tell me it didnt seriously mess my computer up.

AirmaN · #9 Postby **AirmaN** » Mon May 24, 2004 6:09 pm

Your computer was already seriously messed up.

Better run virusscan

Scott_inVA · #10 Postby **Scott_inVA** » Mon May 24, 2004 8:27 pm

myred wrote:If anyone like myself ran the stormtracker.exe file, and if you are running nt, win2k, xp. Open task manger and kill the stormtracker.exe process. Even though it seems like the file is not doing anything it is running resident in memory until you kill the process. From what I can tell it looks like some type of logging program. I have no idea what it is logging.

Hmmm...first I've heard of this.

FWIW, the ACTUAL Stormtrakker executable is "stormtrakker.exe" (2 K's).
Since WREL's model maps are generated with this program, probably should issue a disclaimer that if one goes to the model map page one does not download any app (stormtrakker or otherwise).

Scott

Also, everyone should be running AwAware and Spybot :wink:

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