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Suspicious E-Mail Messages Barry 01-13-2007
Posted by Barry on January 13, 2007, 4:37 am
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Hi

Recently i received 2 e-mail messages, the id was possibly picked from
monster.com.

I generally do not open messages from unknow sources, but in these cases i
did open them, the messages did not have any attachments

One message said "Your cv has been shortlisted" other one had an even more
bizzare message "I have not stolen anything"

My question is, can such messages contain Viruses

TIA
Barry



Posted by Malke on January 13, 2007, 8:29 am
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Barry wrote:

> Hi
>
> Recently i received 2 e-mail messages, the id was possibly picked from
> monster.com.
>
> I generally do not open messages from unknow sources, but in these cases i
> did open them, the messages did not have any attachments
>
> One message said "Your cv has been shortlisted" other one had an even more
> bizzare message "I have not stolen anything"
>
> My question is, can such messages contain Viruses

If there were no attachments, it is unlikely that those spam messages - and
that's what they were: spam - carried a virus. Hopefully you have a
full-featured current version antivirus (not earlier than 2006) installed
with an active subscription and updated virus definitions.

You might find this website useful:

http://www.getsafeonline.org/

Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

Posted by David H. Lipman on January 13, 2007, 9:53 am
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| Hi
|
| Recently i received 2 e-mail messages, the id was possibly picked from
| monster.com.
|
| I generally do not open messages from unknow sources, but in these cases i
| did open them, the messages did not have any attachments
|
| One message said "Your cv has been shortlisted" other one had an even more
| bizzare message "I have not stolen anything"
|
| My question is, can such messages contain Viruses
|
| TIA
| Barry
|

Phishers are using Monster. They may be Phishing emails.

Without seeing the full body and headers of the email messages, it is hard to
tell.

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm



Posted by Jim Macklin on January 20, 2007, 4:53 am
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And if curiosity [which killed the cat] gets the better of
you, before opening any suspicious email, open Tools/options
and set your email to read all email as plain text. That
will stop scripts and HTML from running. Then check the
properties to see all the header material. You can copy the
routing headers and send it, along with the forwarded email
to abuse at the appropriate sites, including spam@uce.gov
and abuse@[domain.name ]


|
|| Hi
||
|| Recently i received 2 e-mail messages, the id was
possibly picked from
|| monster.com.
||
|| I generally do not open messages from unknow sources, but
in these cases i
|| did open them, the messages did not have any attachments
||
|| One message said "Your cv has been shortlisted" other one
had an even more
|| bizzare message "I have not stolen anything"
||
|| My question is, can such messages contain Viruses
||
|| TIA
|| Barry
||
|
| Phishers are using Monster. They may be Phishing emails.
|
| Without seeing the full body and headers of the email
messages, it is hard to tell.
|
| --
| Dave
| http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
| http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
|
|



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