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.
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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.
This has been in the internet news for a week or so. Microsoft never emails attachments. They get you to download from a web URL. Just ignore it.
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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.