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Thread poster: Beth Fagnant
Beth Fagnant
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Feb 10, 2005

Is anyone else getting tons of e-mails with viruses attached with this type of address, E [[email protected]]?
 
Natalie
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Poland
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Moving the thread Feb 10, 2005

to the Safe Computing forum.

What about the sender's email address: Beth, viruses may use ANY email address (even your own!). Creating fake sender's addresses is a well known property of many viruses.
 
Tharaa Hafez
Tharaa Hafez
Egypt
Local time: 03:43
English to Arabic
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Daily received Feb 10, 2005

I receive daily about ten emails of this type . So, as long as the address is unknown for me , I delete them and with Yahoo I am happy that all of them are directed to the Bulk folder. Don't waste your time and don't open them .

Saraa
 
heikeb (X)
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English to German
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Nope. :-) Feb 11, 2005

In the last one and a half year or so, I think only three e-mails that brought up a virus warning. I think my ISP scans and removes them successfully before passing anything on. They use Norton. Or else - I just don't get'em.
They also use a fairly efficient spam filter, and I only rarely open any of those messages that end up in my bulk folder.
 


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