Spam With Virus

[Troy]

This morning I had three e-mails each with a virus as detected by Norton AntiVirus®.
All three had the same ISP number. The most interesting thing is that one was from MY E-MAIL ADDRESS !!! and I know positively that I did NOT send this to me.
I'm not techno-savvy enough to understand how this is done, but it sure is interesting..... and scary.

Troy

 

[Joseph Cues]

They mask their email address.
We get it all the time here at work.
Someone has your email address in their address book or your email is public due to Ebay and other popular sites.
Never open an attachment or link from anyone you don't know.

 

[Jon]

They mask their email address.
We get it all the time here at work.
Someone has your email address in their address book or your email is public due to Ebay and other popular sites.
Never open an attachment or link from anyone you don't know.

never take advise from strangers...

Thanks,

Jon <- thinks joey sent it...

 

[tom haney]

This morning I had three e-mails each with a virus as detected by Norton AntiVirus®.
All three had the same ISP number. The most interesting thing is that one was from MY E-MAIL ADDRESS !!! and I know positively that I did NOT send this to me.
I'm not techno-savvy enough to understand how this is done, but it sure is interesting..... and scary.

Troy

Same thing happened to my wife, Troy. The net gets
weirder and weirder.

 

[cardiac kid]

Hi Troy,

Beware of a "new" e-mail scam. You may receive what looks like an error notification from your ISP of a returned or undeliverable e-mail. Do not open it until you check with the ISP. Most are trojan viruses. I now get about two a day. I signed up for McAfee VirusScan Online four years ago. Never had a problem. It told me about the .exe's before I could open them. How about the new "ad" messages showing up over your home page? There is no regulation of this new internet problem yet. Way too scary.

 

[Joseph Cues]

Hi Troy,

Beware of a "new" e-mail scam. You may receive what looks like an error notification from your ISP of a returned or undeliverable e-mail. Do not open it until you check with the ISP. Most are trojan viruses. I now get about two a day. I signed up for McAfee VirusScan Online four years ago. Never had a problem. It told me about the .exe's before I could open them. How about the new "ad" messages showing up over your home page? There is no regulation of this new internet problem yet. Way too scary.

Yup. Never give away your passwords for your Paypal or Ebay accounts, via email. If they wanted you to change anything, they'd link you to a secure site and do the changes there. NOT via e-mail.
Really, the rule is, if it looks suspicious, be suspicious.
This advise is free except for Big Jon. If he's computer is still up, a bill is on the way.

 

[Rickw]

I don't use Outlook at home. I have it at work but we have network folks ensuring that we don't get infected. At home I use Yahoo or MSN email. This kind of works the same as at work. Yahoo and MSN ensure that no virus gets through the firewall. So far, it has worked pretty good.

 

[Troy]

Thanks... I did NOT get bit by the virus !!! I was simply reporting the spam/virus.
I thoroughly trust Norton AntiVirus® and even then I only open attachments from a source I know and trust.

Hi Troy,

Beware of a "new" e-mail scam. You may receive what looks like an error notification from your ISP of a returned or undeliverable e-mail. Do not open it until you check with the ISP. Most are trojan viruses. I now get about two a day. I signed up for McAfee VirusScan Online four years ago. Never had a problem. It told me about the .exe's before I could open them. How about the new "ad" messages showing up over your home page? There is no regulation of this new internet problem yet. Way too scary.

 

[Joseph Cues]

I don't use Outlook at home. I have it at work but we have network folks ensuring that we don't get infected. At home I use Yahoo or MSN email. This kind of works the same as at work. Yahoo and MSN ensure that no virus gets through the firewall. So far, it has worked pretty good.

We have Outlook at work and I help maintain it. We have pretty much blocked any attachment that has the .exe extension.
Outlook Express(home version) is a great launching pad for viruses/worms b/c people store their address books there. With Yahoo and MSN you address books are with them not local to your computer so they are a little safer.
They are not bulletproof of course but are better.

 

[Jon]

Yup. Never give away your passwords for your Paypal or Ebay accounts, via email. If they wanted you to change anything, they'd link you to a secure site and do the changes there. NOT via e-mail.
Really, the rule is, if it looks suspicious, be suspicious.
This advise is free except for Big Jon. If he's computer is still up, a bill is on the way.

Really??? oh well, i'll just crash it myself then... I don't open any attachments, unless 1) i know who it its, 2) they send me an email saying they are attaching something, certainly for one email account, where some orders/quotes/artwork/digitizing come through, if a customer wants to give us any kind of attachment, they have to send it through the company we do the work for, and then one person sends it to us. Keeps the peace, i would hate to have one of my "computer buddies" teach them a lesson on a office computer, all networked and such...

Thanks,

Jon <- still thinks Joey did it... with a candle stick... in the basement...

 

[yobagua]

I never open any attachments unless someone calls me and tells me they are sending me one. A friend got a E-card from a friend and got a serious virus. Seems someone stole her address book and sent those cards under her name.