27 Responses to “Post Express Service package delivery failure email has malware attached”

1. Billybob says:

   February 2, 2011 at 18:58

   Neutralised by Kaspersky on arrival.
   It’s the McAfee users i feel sorry for.:(
2. Nazmul says:

   February 7, 2011 at 05:05

   I got this email too…but thing is one of my packages did get lost and did not go to the person it was supposed to, so I thought it was really real until I saw an exe file and my McAfee blocked it. And also the email CCs some other emails with similar emails addresses like mine, which made me think it was a computer generated thing.
3. MauiBoy says:

   February 9, 2011 at 05:41

   I got this yesterday, thought one of my packages were sent back again. Got fooled into opening the virus due to rushing and not paying attention. Now my home PC is locked up and continuously rebooting, unable to remove in command prompt modes/safe modes. I’m completely lost in how to stop the rebooting from this virus/trojan. I’m willing to read suggestions. Mahalo for your time.

   Aloha!
4. Rachel says:

   February 9, 2011 at 19:03

   I received this too, and as I had recently returned an Express Post package, I thought it might be legit. But like “Nazmul”, when I saw the exe file I was suspicious and didn’t open it.
5. Jill says:

   February 9, 2011 at 22:01

   I recently order many things online, which I don’t do very often. I also thought it was real until my computer said it wasn’t trusted. I wonder if there is a similar place we all ordered from that caused us to get this? I received this only a few hours ago. I placed orders with sporting decor shops, fathead, football fanatics….places like that.
6. joe joe says:

   February 11, 2011 at 07:05

   I too recieved this email 5 days after placing an order online (power tool). It has been a long time since I placed online order. I think it’s a number of sites being compromised. How? Someone is getting our emails when we place our orders. What other info are they getting? Credit Card? hmm….
7. joe joe says:

   February 11, 2011 at 07:10

   Just another thought; is it possible our computers are compromised already before we order? something asleep in our computer, waiting for us to place order and getting our info? but probably not. Just a thought for the rest of the gurus to figure out.
8. Klap says:

   February 12, 2011 at 02:24

   MauiBoy – Re-install windows from the CD -, change your boot device on the Startup to CDrom, and boot from CD.
9. jacki says:

   February 12, 2011 at 13:08

   how do u get rid of the trojan virus once its on ur system…my avg anti virus thing pops up ever 3 mins approx tellin me theres viruses on my system
10. Chiedu says:

    February 15, 2011 at 18:42

    I got this message also but when i opened it ,i have to use winrar for it. but it was not opening. I have to call the post express office to comfirm the message, but to no avail. thank God for the strong antivirus I have in my PC.
11. TSKee says:

    February 19, 2011 at 12:39

    I received this and almost opened it till I saw the .exe file. Funny thing is, as mentioned above, I had just placed an order on meritline.com, and it was due to ship the same day I received this garbage email. It too had CC’d other similar names….
12. rodo says:

    March 10, 2011 at 09:26

    AVG got it on arrival, excellent free antivirus
13. LUKA says:

    March 10, 2011 at 15:52

    Anche io ho ricevuto questa mail e guardacaso aspettavo un pacco proprio il giorno che mi è arrivata la mail ed ho lasciato perdere per vedere se effettivamente mi fosse arrivato,passati 2 giorni non era ancora arrivato niente e mi è venuto il dubbio di aprire la mail,ma quando ho provato ad aprirla mi è venuto subito qualche dubbio,che mi sono subito tolto ricercando su google “Post Express Office” dove alla fine sono arrivato effettivamente a capire che si trattasse di un trojan!
    Quello che mi domando è:come fanno questi stronzi ad impossessarsi dei miei dati e soprattutto quali dati massimo riescono ad ottenere?
    Una cosa è sicura…che sono dei gran fiji de na mignotta!!
14. Robert says:

    March 10, 2011 at 17:45

    Living in Holland, I got this same mail today, 10 march 2011. Fortunately ESET NOD 32 antivirus recognized it and did put it already in de “suspicious mail” -mailbox. So I first looked on the internet and discovered this site. Now I know it’s malicious software and I have deleted it without opening the attachment. Good to have sites like this!
15. Chris says:

    March 10, 2011 at 21:20

    I just got this today. It did not have any emails CC’s as others have posted, but and the attachment was a zip file.
16. DMDad says:

    March 11, 2011 at 16:10

    I received this email this morning, thought it suspicious so I scanned the attachment with my Symantec Corporate antivirus…NO trojan was detected, so it’s not just McAfee users that have to be worried…
17. Barbara says:

    March 11, 2011 at 17:02

    I also received this e-mail (a few times), but I don’t think it must be connected with placing orders. I have two e-mail addresses – one used only for buying online and loging on web portals, and the second one only for correspondence. I buy online quite often, from different sites and different countries, and the ‘Post Express Service’ virus comes frequently, BUT only for this address used exclusively for correspondence. I never got it for the address used for buying/loging.
18. Brent says:

    March 12, 2011 at 00:03

    I got this today, but won’t open it. Sometimes will get a UPS msg of the same type.
19. E J Cobbs says:

    March 12, 2011 at 01:49

    I got this thing and like an idiot I opened it. Was hoping Anti-Vir would stop it if it was bad, but it didn’t. Shut down, wouldn’t reboot, tried reinstalling, but that won’t work either. It formats, then loses the format, restarts and then starts over. Any suggestions?
20. Julian says:

    March 12, 2011 at 23:52

    I got the same email on Feb 10th, thought to see what message in the zip file, did not pay attention to the file name, after double clicked on the file, no window was openned to display the message. When I checked the file name again, found it is a exe file. Shot! I had already run it. No thing happened at the time. I deleted the email although it was too late. I shuted down my laptop, went out.

    After coming back home, turn on laptop, the BIOS boot started, then just stopped there.

    Shutted down the power, then turn the power on, pressed F8, till see the boot option menu, selected Safe Mode, press Enter, then window went to black.

    Tried different option to start, no luck!

    I have many useful files in my laptop(Windows XP), not backed up yet.

    Help! Is the reinstall XP the only way to recover my laptop? Will my files be lost?

    Many thanks1
21. Liz says:

    March 14, 2011 at 11:05

    How do you get rid of this virus?! I don’t know what to do.. I ran malaware bytes but they didn’t detect anything.. and I deleted the zip file of this virus. but please I need help getting this off!
22. Rhonda says:

    March 18, 2011 at 03:17

    I saw this email on my phone and deleted it instantly…it never showed up in my outlook mailbox but Symantec Corporate gave me a message that it had been detected and deleted. However, now my outlook is hosed and I can’t send or receive email on my laptop but keep getting prompted to use inbox repair which I can not find. I have never heard of malware that can execute even when you do not open it?! Any help/suggestions are appreciated.
23. Maenie says:

    March 19, 2011 at 23:07

    I’ve received this mail several times in the last couple of weeks. I’m assuming from different addresses as each time I have blocked the sender. Luckily I read it on my iPhone the first time I received it, as otherwise I may have opened the attachment. I order lots of things online, but I was suspicious that there was no personal information in the email, my name, address or even who I was supposedly receiving a package from.
24. florautentica says:

    March 20, 2011 at 10:12

    Hoy recibí este mail, como lo noté sospechoso lo eliminé inmediatamente sin abrirlo.
    Luego me puse a buscar en Internet y me encontré con esto.
    Espero que a pesar de todo no haya afectado mi pc.
    Hasta ahora no he notado nada extraño.
25. Tianjiao says:

    March 22, 2011 at 07:17

    I’m in China.I got it this morning. I’m really curious about it. Thanks god I didn’t open it.
26. kirsty says:

    April 4, 2011 at 04:22

    I received this e-mail today. It went straight into junk mail and had a list of e-mail addresses in the cc bar, so I deleted straight away. Thought it was suspious so found this website after reading other peoples experiences glad I checked.

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