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site to scan suspicious email? name 05-29-2007
Posted by name on May 29, 2007, 1:14 am
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Hello.

Lately I've been receiving some suspicious emails and I was wondering
if there is any place online where I can forward those emails to check
them for security hazards.
I've examined the contents of these mails and they only appeared to
contain a picture, but I'm a bit wary that they might contain some
hidden content that might harm my computer.

So does anyone know a website where I could get some sort of analysis
of the contents of these emails that might reveal any potential
security threats?
Or perhaps someone knows a method that allows me to save those emails
to disk so I can simply use an online scanner to check them in a
folder on my pc.
The mail was received at my free hotmail account and I use AVG.

Kind regards and thanks in advance, Niek


Posted by C J. on May 29, 2007, 1:30 am
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>
> Hello.
>
> Lately I've been receiving some suspicious emails and I was wondering
> if there is any place online where I can forward those emails to check
> them for security hazards.
> I've examined the contents of these mails and they only appeared to
> contain a picture, but I'm a bit wary that they might contain some
> hidden content that might harm my computer.
>
> So does anyone know a website where I could get some sort of analysis
> of the contents of these emails that might reveal any potential
> security threats?
> Or perhaps someone knows a method that allows me to save those emails
> to disk so I can simply use an online scanner to check them in a
> folder on my pc.
> The mail was received at my free hotmail account and I use AVG.
>
> Kind regards and thanks in advance, Niek
>
This was taken from Hotmail's online help:

"When you open a message attachment, it is automatically checked for
viruses. In some cases, MSN Hotmail blocks certain types of files sent as
attachments to help protect your account from viruses. You will be notified
if a potentially unsafe attachment has been blocked. "

This is provided you are viewing your mail from Hotmail online.

Hope this sets your mind at ease somewhat.



Posted by name on May 29, 2007, 12:54 pm
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>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Hello.
>
> > Lately I've been receiving some suspicious emails and I was wondering
> > if there is any place online where I can forward those emails to check
> > them for security hazards.
> > I've examined the contents of these mails and they only appeared to
> > contain a picture, but I'm a bit wary that they might contain some
> > hidden content that might harm my computer.
>
> > So does anyone know a website where I could get some sort of analysis
> > of the contents of these emails that might reveal any potential
> > security threats?
> > Or perhaps someone knows a method that allows me to save those emails
> > to disk so I can simply use an online scanner to check them in a
> > folder on my pc.
> > The mail was received at my free hotmail account and I use AVG.
>
> > Kind regards and thanks in advance, Niek
>
> This was taken from Hotmail's online help:
>
> "When you open a message attachment, it is automatically checked for
> viruses. In some cases, MSN Hotmail blocks certain types of files sent as
> attachments to help protect your account from viruses. You will be notified
> if a potentially unsafe attachment has been blocked. "
>
> This is provided you are viewing your mail from Hotmail online.
>
> Hope this sets your mind at ease somewhat.- Tekst uit oorspronkelijk bericht
niet weergeven -
>
> - Tekst uit oorspronkelijk bericht weergeven -


I know... but hotmail did actually say the content of the mail was not
being shown because it might be potentially harmful. But I opened it
anyway. Perhaps that was a stupid mistake on my part, ok, but I
already did it. So now I want to know whether this might have any
consequences. I still have those emails in my inbox.


Posted by name on May 29, 2007, 12:56 pm
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>
>
>
>
>
> > > Hello.
>
> > > Lately I've been receiving some suspicious emails and I was wondering
> > > if there is any place online where I can forward those emails to check
> > > them for security hazards.
> > > I've examined the contents of these mails and they only appeared to
> > > contain a picture, but I'm a bit wary that they might contain some
> > > hidden content that might harm my computer.
>
> > > So does anyone know a website where I could get some sort of analysis
> > > of the contents of these emails that might reveal any potential
> > > security threats?
> > > Or perhaps someone knows a method that allows me to save those emails
> > > to disk so I can simply use an online scanner to check them in a
> > > folder on my pc.
> > > The mail was received at my free hotmail account and I use AVG.
>
> > > Kind regards and thanks in advance, Niek
>
> > This was taken from Hotmail's online help:
>
> > "When you open a message attachment, it is automatically checked for
> > viruses. In some cases, MSN Hotmail blocks certain types of files sent as
> > attachments to help protect your account from viruses. You will be notified
> > if a potentially unsafe attachment has been blocked. "
>
> > This is provided you are viewing your mail from Hotmail online.
>
> > Hope this sets your mind at ease somewhat.- Tekst uit oorspronkelijk bericht
niet weergeven -
>
> > - Tekst uit oorspronkelijk bericht weergeven -
>
> I know... but hotmail did actually say the content of the mail was not
> being shown because it might be potentially harmful. But I opened it
> anyway. Perhaps that was a stupid mistake on my part, ok, but I
> already did it. So now I want to know whether this might have any
> consequences. I still have those emails in my inbox.- Tekst uit oorspronkelijk
bericht niet weergeven -
>
> - Tekst uit oorspronkelijk bericht weergeven -

Oh, and by the way, the mail didn't have any attachment, but it did
have a picture inside.


Posted by Mr. Arnold on May 29, 2007, 2:03 am
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>
> Hello.
>
> Lately I've been receiving some suspicious emails and I was wondering
> if there is any place online where I can forward those emails to check
> them for security hazards.

So why go any further with it? You should get rid of them. If you don't know
where they came from and they are suspicious to you, then why even mess
around with them?

> I've examined the contents of these mails and they only appeared to
> contain a picture, but I'm a bit wary that they might contain some
> hidden content that might harm my computer.

Then you don't mess around with them. You don't download the emails to your
machine.

>
> So does anyone know a website where I could get some sort of analysis
> of the contents of these emails that might reveal any potential
> security threats?

Again, if you don't know where the emails came from, like a trusted source,
then why play any games.

> Or perhaps someone knows a method that allows me to save those emails
> to disk so I can simply use an online scanner to check them in a
> folder on my pc.

You shouldn't be saving unknown emails to your computer, period. You should
be using a proxy email client such as Mailwasher (free) or others the will
allow you to view an email at the ISP's email server without downloading the
email to your machine, and it also gives you the ability to delete the email
without pulling the email to the machine.

> The mail was received at my free hotmail account and I use AVG.
>
> Kind regards and thanks in advance, Niek
>

The only clicking with the happy fingers you should be doing is deleting any
unknown or untrusted emails not letting them come to your machine.

The only emails I let reach my machine are those from a known and trusted
source like my car insurance carrier (time to pay the bill) or I made
contact with someone over the phone and in our conversation, an email was
being sent to me.

Other than that, if I don't know where the email came from or it's not a
trusted source, then it's being deleted with the proxy email client program
at the ISP email server, and it's never reaching my machine.

Although the link talks about Web users, it would be curious to see the
results of the email user with the happy fingers that *click*.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2132447,00.asp

The buck stops with you. It doesn't stop anywhere else.


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