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Rose , Shani, Homeless & Mojo
March 15 at 16:10
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Mysterious email
I recieved a very suspicous email this afternoon. Do not recognize the sender. The only text - which was unsigned said "is that your message?". There was an attachment which I am paranoid about opening. Am I being ridiculous here? I know I am very outspoken about my "dog-opinions". Rose English Publisher, Boomer Times
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Beth & the Herbs
March 15 at 16:17
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Re: Mysterious email
Rose, to be honest in this day and age with all the virus's going around, I wouldn't open any attachement from someone you don't know.
Just my opinion,
Hugs, Beth & the Herbs
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Jacqueline Guethle
March 15 at 16:52
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Re: Mysterious email
Rose, can you RIGHT click on it? It should bring up a menu-go to properties & click on properties. At the top of that is a tab-DETAILS. Click on DETAILS...It should show you info on the sender. I do not know much about computers, but I did learn this. Good luck! Jackie
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Bullitt's Mom
March 15 at 16:53
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Re: Mysterious email
Rose, Over the last two weeks I have received two undeliverable messages for e-mails I did not send. Something really weird is going on and I would be very careful if I were you.
Sue D.
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Jodi, Logan & Katie
March 16 at 12:40
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Re: Mysterious email
Sue the same thing is happening over here. - Jodi
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Lynda and the Minkies
March 15 at 17:04
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Re: Mysterious email
I had one from you today !!! Teehee....just delete it, Rose. If you don't recognise it, get rid. XXX.
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Rose , Shani, Homeless & Mojo
March 15 at 17:30
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Re: Mysterious email
Ok I did the right click thing - (I have it in my deleted mail) - here is what came up...
Return-Path: Received: from mxsf26.cluster1.charter.net ([10.20.201.226]) by mtai01.charter.net (InterMail vM.6.00.05.02 201-2115-109-103-20031105) with ESMTP id <20040315182947.UMV5671.mtai01.charter.net@mxsf26.cluster1.charter.net> for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 13:29:47 -0500 Received: from charter.net (ny-auburn-cuda1k-225.bflony.adelphia.net [69.166.42.225]) by mxsf26.cluster1.charter.net (8.12.10/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i2FIQ6BC090820 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 13:26:06 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dunkeltcb@aol.com) Message-Id: <200403151826.i2FIQ6BC090820@mxsf26.cluster1.charter.net> From: dunkeltcb@aol.com To: rosenglish@charter.net Subject: error Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 10:58:08 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0007_0000555E.00000F9C" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT COMPUTERS. THIS ISN'T TELLING ME ANYTHING. DOES ANYONE RECOGNIZE ANY OF THIS JARGON??? I STILL HAVEN'T OPENED THE ATTACHMENT BUT IN THE MESSAGE BOX THE TEXT SAID: "IS THAT YOUR MESSAGE?"
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Lynda and the Minkies
March 15 at 17:46
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Re: Mysterious email
There are email addresses in among all that junk. If you don't recognise them as a friend delete it. If you DO then email them and ask if they sent you an attachment BEFORE opening it. XXX.
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Denise and the Iowa Girls
March 15 at 18:16
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Re: Mysterious email
There are so many virus out there that do weird things they send messages that say they were from you and are undeliverable and you may get some from anyone you have sent to in the past with a one line on it they are junk and need to be deleted.. where I work my e-mail is on the net and I get 50-100 of these stupid things a day just horrible.. we get several from people that are sitting right next to you that never sent them ... just have to use that delete key alot!
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Terrier Club
March 15 at 18:23
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Do NOT open attachments
There are still viruses making the rounds that spoof the sender's email address. So you can even get an infected email from someone you know.
The best defense is simply to never open ANY attachment unless you are expecting it. If the return address is someone you know, first email them back and ask if they sent the message. If they confirm it's theirs and the attachment was NOT forwarded, then save it to your hard drive and virus scan it before opening.
Never (and I mean NEVER) open any executable file attachment. You can identify a file as being executable by looking at the file type (last 3 letters after the ".")
Here are the most common executable file types to beware of:
.exe .pif .bat .scr .zip .com .vxd .cpl .sys .vbs
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