For the past week or so I have been receiving email from sources I have never emailed. It has an attachment called DELETEDO.TXT. A virus? I just delete them after marking them as junk in Thunderbird. Am I alone with this or are others getting this too.
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Anybody else getting this email?
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Dane D. said:
I am sure its a virus, bug, worm, or someone trying to get your info... The thing about this, is the often have man .TXT, .DOC, .APP, .SIT, .EXE, etc and on each they changes the name when the send to people on mass e-mail lists. But, I know these often don't work with Macs, only PC's.😀
And there's these ones:
Which I guess is an attempt to bypass your junk filters but I find the occasional one quite thought-provoking — poignantly surreal blank verse.
Which I guess is an attempt to bypass your junk filters but I find the occasional one quite thought-provoking — poignantly surreal blank verse.
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To answer your question; no I haven't gotten that email.
Then I have a question of my own...
I have gmail, and I've gotten 2 emails from "security@gmail.com" saying "for security reasons" I must follow this link within 24 hours otherwise my account will be suspended. I clicked the link, but then just got garbled text; then I tried it in Firefox (I was in Safari before) and firefox asked me if I wanted to download a file (I hit no).
Anybody else get an email like this?
Then I have a question of my own...
I have gmail, and I've gotten 2 emails from "security@gmail.com" saying "for security reasons" I must follow this link within 24 hours otherwise my account will be suspended. I clicked the link, but then just got garbled text; then I tried it in Firefox (I was in Safari before) and firefox asked me if I wanted to download a file (I hit no).
Anybody else get an email like this?
I don't think viruses can be carried in .txt or .rtf . They can in .doc because microsoft will execute code for you, even if you don't ask it to.
People, when you get an email from Google, eBay, Yahoo, or whatever, look at the link properties (hovering the mouse over the link and look at the status bar, or right-click). If it doesn't say "yahoo.com" or "https://ebay.com" in there, it's probably not real. Also, don't even bother using the link to get to those sites. You can get there just as easily by typing the site in the address bar.
People, when you get an email from Google, eBay, Yahoo, or whatever, look at the link properties (hovering the mouse over the link and look at the status bar, or right-click). If it doesn't say "yahoo.com" or "https://ebay.com" in there, it's probably not real. Also, don't even bother using the link to get to those sites. You can get there just as easily by typing the site in the address bar.
I had one in Japanese the other day. Babel fish translated it into English, but sadly into a list of seemingly unconnected words, so I have no idea whether it was the most important email in the world, or spam.
I went with the latter. 😛
I went with the latter. 😛
