I have been receiving virus-laden spam to my yahoo account with mildly disturbing "from" and "subject" fields. The size of
This is a form letter that I am sending to everyone in my address book. --M --- Mjit Raindancer-Stahl <realmjit@yahoo.com> wrote: these is around 72K
from today: postmaster@ houston.rr.com -- FwD: Your Password register@ merit-lilin.de -- mailing error hostmaster@ dataactivity.com -- Your email was blocked webmaster@ cybercoders.com -- Your email was blocked webmaster@ fetishalliance.net -- Re: [blank] stephierocks39@ hotmail.com -- Re: [blank] register@ ntlworld.com -- Your email was blocked MidnightAuction@ aol.com -- Re: [blank] SlicRick64@ aol.com -- Re: [blank]
I find it disturbing that my mail is being blocked even though I am not the source of these e-mails. I have run
virus-checkers
on both machines that I use to check my mail, and the virus is not present. I don't send mail from this account more than once every couple of weeks, and I only send an attachment about once a month, to people who are expecting it from me.
I'm sure most of you know this, but I will say it anyway: if you don't have a virus scanner, get one. If you have one, use it. If some one sends and attachment with 2 file extensions (example: filename.txt.zip), it's probably a virus.
Thank you for for not branding me a flaming idiot.
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