Has anyone heard of a virus or other malware that invades an email client together with downloaded messages and displays "no nookie" when the affected email is opened? When this happened to me today I ran an NIS full system scan which detected no threats other than routine tracking cookies.
Has anyone heard of a virus or other malware that invades an email client together with downloaded messages and displays "no nookie" when the affected email is opened? When this happened to me today I ran an NIS full system scan which detected no threats other than routine tracking cookies.
Thanks for your reply. The downloaded email message most likely was today's headlines from the NY Times newspaper. My wife has a subscription and uses the daily NYT email to browse the news. We use the Windows Live client and our server is Yahoo.
The "no nookie" message was just those two words in an error box that appeared when we tried to open the NYT email. Other emails were OK, but they all downloaded in multiple copies--four apiece, I think. Now we can't get the error box to reappear so we can copy it, but the NYT headline links in the email don't work--either in Windows Live or in Yahoo mail. This malware acted like a virus but maybe came from Yahoo or one of the other parties. I tried Googling "no nookie" but saw no results regarding a virus, though the phrase is in very active use right now.
I just saw a report on TV news that somebody hacked the NY Times website. This would account for the
"no nookie" message that came up when trying to use an emailed headline link, though the website itself looks OK and there was no mention of a hacker as of 30 minutes ago.
Thanks for the info! I see there's quite a bit of news about the NY Times site being down - but there are other stories about it being an internal server malfunction and not a hacker???
Hard to see how an internal server malfunction would produce the "no nookie" message. Sounds like Janet Jackson's famous "wardrobe malfunction." :o)
apfeffer wrote:Hard to see how an internal server malfunction would produce the "no nookie" message. Sounds like Janet Jackson's famous "wardrobe malfunction." :o)
No arguement from me - but here is what is being put out! 
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57598501-93/new-york-times-web-site-restored-after-outage/
http://www.myfoxboston.com/story/23136387/new-york-times-website-goes-down
Here's a posting which specifically mentions the "no nookie" message in conjunction with the server malfunction :-)