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Got this email today...should I install the attachment?

 
 
Reply Tue 15 Jun, 2004 09:28 pm
I got an email from "Microsoft" <[email protected]> today.

Subject: Use this patch immediately!

Body: Dear friend , use this Internet Explorer patch now!
There are dangerous virus in the Internet now!
More than 500.000 already infected!

--end--

Headers: Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from mx06.lax.untd.com (mx06.lax.untd.com [10.130.24.66])
by maildeliver04.lax.untd.com with SMTP id AABAN9HJ4AUPCAGJ
for <[email protected]> (sender <[email protected]>);
Tue, 15 Jun 2004 18:06:34 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from localhost (ip65-45-23-146.z23-45-65.customer.algx.net
[65.45.23.146])
by mx06.lax.untd.com with SMTP id AABAN9HJ4AJCCUPJ
for <[email protected]> (sender <[email protected]>);
Tue, 15 Jun 2004 18:06:34 -0700 (PDT)
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Um, do you think I should open and install the attachment? ROR

Shocked

General Tsao
Those email vipers are bastards!
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Craven de Kere
 
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Reply Tue 15 Jun, 2004 09:32 pm
Unless you want spam, I'd remove your email from that post.

And though you probably know, installing the patch would be a very bad idea.
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roger
 
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Reply Tue 15 Jun, 2004 09:36 pm
I wouldn't touch it for anything less than bond in the amount required to clean up the disk.

A month ago, I received an email attachment from a friend (well known on a2k), and checked with her before opening it. In fact, she had sent me nothing with an attachment - ever.

Scroll through the old a2k Computer and Internet forums to find the address for windows updates. Much better you go to them. They do not come to you.
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Foxfyre
 
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Reply Tue 15 Jun, 2004 11:02 pm
Any patches you need for anything you can find on Microsoft.com or the site for whatever operating system you use. That's the only place I would trust to get them.
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Mr Stillwater
 
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Reply Wed 16 Jun, 2004 01:19 am
Err, General - prob'y not a good idea to include your email address in the post. Just inviting more of the same as those spam bastids troll forums collecting such info!
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SealPoet
 
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Reply Wed 16 Jun, 2004 04:25 am
Re: Got this email today...should I install the attachment?
GeneralTsao wrote:
...(sender <[email protected]>);...


Da, comrade.
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cavfancier
 
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Reply Wed 16 Jun, 2004 04:34 am
I got an e-mail with an attachment from a good friend reading "re: your contact info". I generally recognize this as a virus, usually Netsky on my comp. I called him and he said no, I am actually updating my contact info. I told him that was a bad way of heading up an e-mail these days. Laughing
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Foxfyre
 
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Reply Wed 16 Jun, 2004 10:58 am
Roger writes
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A month ago, I received an email attachment from a friend (well known on a2k), and checked with her before opening it. In fact, she had sent me nothing with an attachment - ever.


Good policy to check unless it is somebody who regularly sends you stuff and then it should really make sense.

Not long ago that especially pernicious So-big (?) worm snagged somebody's mailbox that had my e-mail address in it. For days I received hundreds and hundreds of returned e-mails, all with attachments and accompanying messages that their software had detected a virus. These came from Honeywell, General Motors, and dozens of other well known entities as well as hundreds of addresses I didn't recognize. I hadn't sent any e-mail to any of them.

I of course immediately notified everybody on my e-mail list warning them not to download any attachment they received from me until further notice.

I ran a scan on my computer and it was virus/trojan/worm free.

Drawing and quartering is too good for people who do stuff like that.
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