Weird EMail Q. - 2004-02-06 - By Richard Kurbis
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I got the same thing!
Deleted it.
Never open up attachments.
Note:
Yahoo mail groups now have a new feature that places attachments on their
emails, this MAKE people on the ML's have to open an attachment in order to
read the message.
This is very bad as its definitly setting up to become the heaviest virus
ridden community on the internet.
Those ML's using this feature (at least the couple out of many I'm a part
of) have promptly turned this feature off Realizing the risk of making
people open attachments in order to read their messages.
> > Hi, I received an email from "truespace@(protected)", the body
> > said: The message cannot be represented in 7-bit ASCII encoding and has
> > been sent as a binary attachment." THe attachment is named
"message.zip",
> > and the file inside the zip is called "message.scr".
> >
> > I'm not getting any header info showing up.
> > Roman or anyone, is this legitimate? I seem to remember that *.scr
files
> > can hold viruses, so, I'm wondering whether the message is legit and
safe
> > to opn (but what *is* an SCR file...?), or whether someone is onl;y
> > pretending to be from Caligari.
> >
> > ((I didn't just reply to it because, if it is someone just pretending to
> be
> > Caligari, they'd just fool me again, so I figured I'd ask y'all...))
> >
> > Thanks for your patience and any clues (since I have none =;-o !)
> [snip]
>
> Don't open it:
>
> http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.mydoom.a@(protected)
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