McAfee Site Advisor Red Flagged the Concept Draw site stating that they received '2' e-mails from them which contained a virus !!!
Concept Draw Site= 'Red Flagged'
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A perfect example why a ratings system such as McAfee Site Advisor is flawed.
GOTD use Filekicker.com / Filekicker.net as a file hosting service that can host a file that you provide for download by others. In the past perhaps someone gave them an infected file. Therefore their bot has flagged this site as one with infected files, and marked the site as "dangerous".
This makes as much sense as marking "hotmail.com" as a dangerous site because you know about someone with a hotmail.com email address being sent a spam email.
Unless GOTD has uploaded a file with a virus in it (which to date they have never done) you don't have anything to worry about filekicker.com being "unsafe" or "flagged red".
Not that it matters... both are green
http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/filekicker.net/summary/
http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/filekicker.com/summary/In terms of email from the conceptdraw site - it looks like other parties were sending emails - perhaps the conceptdraw email address was leaked - but checking the emails received - I think it is more likely the viruses came from an unrelated spam email.
http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/conceptdraw.com/email
Same rule as always - don't give vendors or parties you don't trust your primary or personal email address.
Posted 17 years ago # -
JEG88
MemberOK,
but I'm not worried about filekicker.com & I trust GAOTD.
What alarms me is what wrote,= about the 'VIRUS' contained in an e-mail that came directly from Concept Draw! -How does that happen?!I totally agree about McAfees rating system being 'flawed'. That is why I always read the 'why' behind the mark. Sometimes they'll give a good site a red mark JUST for sending out 2 'spammy' e-mails a week! I don't agree w/ that. I think red should be reserved for Serious offenses like 'Viruses'!
Posted 17 years ago # -
If you look at the email headings and the "from" address you will see 6 out of the 10 emails listed didn't actually come from conceptdraw - which says to me that the email address was guessed/brute forced or leaked or something. The Viruses most likely arrived in the spam mails from cellularlove, gametemple, or firstclassmoving.
Of more concern to me in this case was how did the spammers get the email that supposedly is uniquely provided only to conceptdraw for the purposes of this 'test' - the obvious implication that conceptdraw gave the email address out to spammers (which from this report, cannot be proven one way or the other).
Posted 17 years ago # -
JEG88
Memberopps!?
-when I responded to your post it stopped at = "flagged red".
-it didn't have the part answering how the e-mail virus could've happened.
-[guess you added to it]-I just checked-out the link u gave = http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/conceptdraw.com/email
,...-it looks like the email address McAfee gave them was given out![?]
When u read the Site Advisor 'Balloon ' it Reads 'as if' the virus emails came directly from Concept Draw,,....--But checking the link, -it shows emails from other sources,, and they Don't specify [for US] what the return address was on the virus emails! So what are we supposed to think? I think its very misleading and not fair to anyone if only they know the truth! I wonder if they realise this?
I thought it was safe to give your email to SW cos ? -Guess only if their high-end!
Either way I wont be giving Odessa mine!Posted 17 years ago # -
JEG88
MemberWe keep crossing paths! -I obviously write tooooo slowww !!!!
But we seem to agree! :D-->>> YES = " how did the spammers get the email " ????!!!!
" the obvious implication that conceptdraw gave the email address out to spammers " ...
-->>> So are u saying that's your guess?-belief??I guess the only way would be to ask McAfee what the return address was.! -Would that make it definitive?
Posted 17 years ago # -
JEG88
MemberI posted this to a women from conceptdraw who was in the comments section:
Julia Fedorenko,
Could you please respond to the claim McAfee Site Advisor makes about receiving ‘2′ e-mails from your site that contained a ‘VIRUS’?-I find this info. to be very alarming! I hope you can clear this up for us. I am very glad to see that you are here responding to peoples concerns.
~Thank You~
Comment by JEG88 — May 11th, 2007 at 4:35 am
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This is her response:
re #33
You know how difficult to fight against spam today. Spammers usually use fake return addresses in their mail (including virus mail too). Unfortunately, they found our addresses like “sales[at]conceptdraw[dot]com” suitable for their unfair business. We’re dealing with this issue now.Comment by Julia Fedorenko — May 11th, 2007 at 5:49 am
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------Well we have an answer! Good!
I [not being a sucky spammer] had never thought of this concept before. -Is it possible to use someone else's email address??? I thought there were some sort of 'safe-guards' in place that prevented that???! ,...... Ok, now I'm worried again!..[ugh!]
Posted 17 years ago # -
What she said is 100% correct. Mail headers and from addresses can easily be forged. Often spammers try to make it appear that the emails came from someone else, so that people do not complain to their internet provider / host so they can avoid getting shut down.
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