Weird EMail Q. - 2004-02-09 - By Thomas Moffat Grimes
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Hi all,
Just a reminder that viruses these days just about always spam the email
address they come from. That is, it never is who sent it. They work by
grabbing email addresses found on the web, or a guessed / made-up address,
or found in an infected computer's address book, and make it seem like they
come from that address.
So that everyone is sure, Caligari won't send you any attachments without
letting you know first! If you get anything that 'appears' to be from a
Caligari address with an attachment, then don't open it. Of course, our
emails are found on message boards, on our website, in people's address
books and all sorts, so it can easily be picked on as a spammed address for
a virus.
Thanks!
Tom
Thomas Moffat Grimes
Marketing Communications
Caligari Corporation
mailto:thomas@(protected)
http://www.caligari.com
> [Original Message]
> From: Kris <pterochromics@(protected)>
> To: <truespace@(protected)>
> Date: 2/6/2004 2:11:09 PM
> Subject: [TSML] Weird EMail Q. -
>
> 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 !)
>
> - Kris
>
>
>
> - Kris M. Krieger
> http://www.pterochromics.com
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