Strange email. Anyone else get this?
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I got an email yesterday from support@microsoft.com, to my personal email address which I keep quite well guarded. I use a forwarding service so most people know that address and almost no one knows my real email address. The email subject was Re: Music. My virus scan warned me that the email had a virus. Obviously (I hope) the email was not from microsoft. I never got the chance to followup on the details of the virus etc. Will post more info later. But curious if anyone else got this.
Why did support @ microsoft send me a virus this morning?[^] The pest is an email and network attack worm that includes a downloaded Trojan horse component, according to a preliminary analysis of the virus by security outfit iDefense. After a computer is infected with the worm it attempts to create copies of itself in remotely shared startup locations on a network. The virus also attempts to update itself by linking to a Web site.
Off to Brazil in a few days
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I got an email yesterday from support@microsoft.com, to my personal email address which I keep quite well guarded. I use a forwarding service so most people know that address and almost no one knows my real email address. The email subject was Re: Music. My virus scan warned me that the email had a virus. Obviously (I hope) the email was not from microsoft. I never got the chance to followup on the details of the virus etc. Will post more info later. But curious if anyone else got this.
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I got an email yesterday from support@microsoft.com, to my personal email address which I keep quite well guarded. I use a forwarding service so most people know that address and almost no one knows my real email address. The email subject was Re: Music. My virus scan warned me that the email had a virus. Obviously (I hope) the email was not from microsoft. I never got the chance to followup on the details of the virus etc. Will post more info later. But curious if anyone else got this.
I haven't received it (nor any other response from Microsoft Support, real or hoax), but I recall reading about this one. It is a hoax that's going around, and it is a virus. Anything received from support@anywhere.com should be viewed with suspicion unless you have recently contacted same about some issue. Support organizations don't usually originate emails except in response to a specific contact. They don't have time to chat...:)
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I got an email yesterday from support@microsoft.com, to my personal email address which I keep quite well guarded. I use a forwarding service so most people know that address and almost no one knows my real email address. The email subject was Re: Music. My virus scan warned me that the email had a virus. Obviously (I hope) the email was not from microsoft. I never got the chance to followup on the details of the virus etc. Will post more info later. But curious if anyone else got this.
Thanks all. I guess I would like to peek into it to see whats in there :-). I almost never open emails with attachments unless its a known source with a subject that I think is safe. Then too I save the attachment first before opening it. And if it is anything that can execute, I rarely run it. Of course I miss out on some cool jokes at times, but hey! I got to keep my computer safe.
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I got an email yesterday from support@microsoft.com, to my personal email address which I keep quite well guarded. I use a forwarding service so most people know that address and almost no one knows my real email address. The email subject was Re: Music. My virus scan warned me that the email had a virus. Obviously (I hope) the email was not from microsoft. I never got the chance to followup on the details of the virus etc. Will post more info later. But curious if anyone else got this.
I just got one in my Yahoo account. It was an add for a free screensaver. John
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I just got one in my Yahoo account. It was an add for a free screensaver. John
Congratulations! You've won a pony! Er, horse actually... Well, okay, it's a Trojan Horse[^].:(
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I got an email yesterday from support@microsoft.com, to my personal email address which I keep quite well guarded. I use a forwarding service so most people know that address and almost no one knows my real email address. The email subject was Re: Music. My virus scan warned me that the email had a virus. Obviously (I hope) the email was not from microsoft. I never got the chance to followup on the details of the virus etc. Will post more info later. But curious if anyone else got this.
I had two last week, one with a PIF attachment. Both came to "Spam trap" email addresses, so somebody has been selling my address either that or the person maintaining the list got hit by a virus. Michael 'War is at best barbarism...Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.' - General William Sherman, 1879
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Congratulations! You've won a pony! Er, horse actually... Well, okay, it's a Trojan Horse[^].:(
"Ask not for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee..."Its good I only use the web interface and did not download the attachment. [EDIT] I ran the yahoo scan on the attachment and you were correct Scan result: Virus W32.Sobig.B@mm found. File not cleaned. [/EDIT] John
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I got an email yesterday from support@microsoft.com, to my personal email address which I keep quite well guarded. I use a forwarding service so most people know that address and almost no one knows my real email address. The email subject was Re: Music. My virus scan warned me that the email had a virus. Obviously (I hope) the email was not from microsoft. I never got the chance to followup on the details of the virus etc. Will post more info later. But curious if anyone else got this.
I get at least 1 or 2 of these a day. Our email gateway strips out the attachments.
Paul Watson wrote: "At the end of the day it is what you produce that counts, not how many doctorates you have on the wall." George Carlin wrote: "Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things." Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote: If the physicists find a universal theory describing the laws of universe, I'm sure the asshole constant will be an integral part of that theory.
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I got an email yesterday from support@microsoft.com, to my personal email address which I keep quite well guarded. I use a forwarding service so most people know that address and almost no one knows my real email address. The email subject was Re: Music. My virus scan warned me that the email had a virus. Obviously (I hope) the email was not from microsoft. I never got the chance to followup on the details of the virus etc. Will post more info later. But curious if anyone else got this.
I got it this week but Spam Assassin marked it as spam. I wondered what it was but luckily I just deleted it.