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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Cerberus on July 18, 2002, 07:48:29 AM

Title: Is this an e-mail virus?
Post by: Cerberus on July 18, 2002, 07:48:29 AM: I\'ll tell you as much as I can without opening the mail itself.

It\'s sent from ContentWatch@Ta... (I can\'t see to read the rest of the address)

The subject matter is "Advisory: Hidden file danger"

The file size is 2k.

It was sent to my hotmail account sometime today.

Obviousley, without actually opening the mail, the odds are against me. So I\'m just asking if anybody recognises the address or suject matter as a possible virus.
I\'m worried because I\'ve never seen this before, most others I have seen, and am happy to just get rid of them

I\'m awaiting any info.
Title: Is this an e-mail virus?
Post by: Samwise on July 18, 2002, 08:04:33 AM: It\'s most likely just spam... anyways, if it\'s on Hotmail, there\'s not much a potential virus could do. Just read it and you\'ll see it\'s spam. AFAIK only files that are sent with the email can be hurtful. So I woulnd\'t worry too much about it. :)
Title: Is this an e-mail virus?
Post by: project86 on July 18, 2002, 08:31:55 AM: Didn\'t you mom and dad teach you not to talk to strangers!!111

If you don\'t know who it is from...DELETE IT!

It\'s the safest way to go man.;)
Title: Is this an e-mail virus?
Post by: Cerberus on July 18, 2002, 08:43:10 AM: Some virus\' can be activated be trying to delete them.
Title: Is this an e-mail virus?
Post by: Samwise on July 18, 2002, 08:56:53 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Jaye_Bennington
Some virus\' can be activated be trying to delete them.
That\'s just in Outlook I think... even though I\'ve never heard of such a thing. I\'m pretty sure no virus can hit you by reading an email on Hotmail.com. Perhaps if you open an attached file and run it, but still.
Title: Is this an e-mail virus?
Post by: luckee on July 18, 2002, 08:59:47 AM: I\'ve never heard of that either. Also when you open somehting in hotmail anyway, it is automatically scanned. The only thing I could imagine through hotmail would be something to make yer system crash and after a reboot, you would be ok..then again..I dont know much about pc\'s.
Title: Is this an e-mail virus?
Post by: mm on July 18, 2002, 09:15:20 AM: its on hotmail\'s servers?

and you are worried why?
Title: Is this an e-mail virus?
Post by: videoholic on July 18, 2002, 09:16:50 AM: Just open it up. It\'s probably just a little funlove action..

I\'ve had that virus on my system for years. Damn thing keeps popping up.
Title: Is this an e-mail virus?
Post by: mm on July 18, 2002, 09:49:50 AM: only virus i ever knew i got was that nasty Klez bitch

norton puts its thing down tho
Title: Is this an e-mail virus?
Post by: Kurt Angle on July 18, 2002, 10:58:55 AM: Sounds just like spam to me, so just delete the bugger!
Title: Is this an e-mail virus?
Post by: Titan on July 18, 2002, 11:28:44 AM: It\'s just spam. Delete it and you\'ll find it\'s nothing to worry about. Just delete anything from people you don\'t know.
Title: Is this an e-mail virus?
Post by: Big Log on July 18, 2002, 11:42:10 AM: Quit being a puss. Open that sucker up......

Uh oh, a stinky....
Title: Is this an e-mail virus?
Post by: EmperorRob on July 18, 2002, 12:47:46 PM: You\'re not going to get a virus from reading a text file.
Title: Is this an e-mail virus?
Post by: theomen on July 18, 2002, 03:26:54 PM: just delete it, hotmail is safe. but if it is a virus, and it wipes out your hd, then I\'ll owe you a coke.
Title: Is this an e-mail virus?
Post by: §ôµÏG®ïñD on July 18, 2002, 05:48:13 PM: i get heaps of crap sent to my hotmail account.. bloodly spiders got it from my site.. So now i\'m getting 40 emails a day of crap. I\'ve got most of it goin to my junk folder. But anything else gets deleted. I don\'t know em. i delete em. So i recommend u delete emails in which you either didn\'t apply for, or don\'t know whom/where it came from.
Title: Is this an e-mail virus?
Post by: videoholic on July 18, 2002, 06:20:19 PM: My wife got on average 167 junk mails a day on her hotmail account. She got a warning every other day about her box being full (Insert sex joke here)

I got her a real email account and now she gets none.