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Strange e-mails

Started by marklar Aug 6, 2002 at 4:44 PM 3 replies 350+ views

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Aug 6, 2002 at 4:44 PM

I get some strange e-mails, and I wonder what they are... (Hotmail and Yahoo!) For example today, I got a message with a header "2800 7.2", and it was 125 kb long. But when I opened (Hotmail) the message, it was empty, there was just a text "forwarded message attached", but there was NO attachments. Everytime I get these strange mails, they come from a different address, and everytime they''re 125 kb long, and everytime there are NO attachments despite the length. And my viruskiller doesn''t detect anything unusual. Any ideas what are those? Anyone else got them?

Lode

Aug 6, 2002 at 4:46 PM

That''s just a simple virus mail. Nothing special about that, they''re quite common nowadays. You don''t see the attachement because probably a virusscanner removed it.

marklar

Aug 6, 2002 at 4:48 PM

quote:
Original post by Lode
That''s just a simple virus mail. Nothing special about that, they''re quite common nowadays. You don''t see the attachement because probably a virusscanner removed it.

Hmm... but, when I got virusmail to my other address (which I''m using with Outlook), my virusscanner noticed it and there was a warning. But how can it notice it from a message which is in Hotmail? I thought those attachments won''t come to my HD (from Hotmail) unless I specifically open/download them?

Lode

Aug 6, 2002 at 4:49 PM

The Hotmail server has a virus scanner too

Just don''t download or open suspicious attachements and nothing will happen.

marklar

Aug 6, 2002 at 4:51 PM

quote:
Original post by Lode
The Hotmail server has a virus scanner too
Just don''t download or open suspicious attachements and nothing will happen.

Ah, I see... (didn''t think about that), the virusscanner MS uses in Hotmail, removed the virus BEFORE the message was delivered to my inbox. Nice

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