symantec?

[Ray]

Hi,
I received an e-mail with attachment purporting to come from
symantec.com. The message informed me that I had been infected with a
version of the mydoom virus and to download the attachment. I deleted the
message and attachment. was that the correct thing to do?
I have Norton av 2004 installed.
TIA.

 

[Meat-->Plow]

Hi,
I received an e-mail with attachment purporting to come from
symantec.com. The message informed me that I had been infected with a
version of the mydoom virus and to download the attachment. I deleted the
message and attachment. was that the correct thing to do?
I have Norton av 2004 installed.
TIA.

Symantec doesn't send out email with binaries attached.

 

[Hurricane Andrew]

Absolutely the correct thing to do. NEVER open an attachment claiming to be
from Microsoft, Symantec, McAfee, etc. If you have a question, go directly
to their website (and not via any links the e-mail). You likely saved
yourself some big headaches.

 

[Sherry]

Hi,
I received an e-mail with attachment purporting to come from
symantec.com. The message informed me that I had been infected with
a version of the mydoom virus and to download the attachment. I
deleted the message and attachment. was that the correct thing to
do?
I have Norton av 2004 installed.
TIA.

Something similar:
I have NAV 2002. A couple of times when sending an email, I got a
message from NAV that the email was probably infected with MyDoom and I
know darn well those emails weren't!

You were right in deleting the email and attachment. Never open an
attachment reportedly "fixing" a virus problem (or password problem, or
email problem.....)

Sherry

 

[Morgan R. Pugh]

Hi,
I received an e-mail with attachment purporting to come from
symantec.com. The message informed me that I had been infected with a
version of the mydoom virus and to download the attachment. I deleted the
message and attachment. was that the correct thing to do?
I have Norton av 2004 installed.
TIA.

I wish more computer users were like you. You secured the e-mail and
then you request help from the public. IMO this is the best thing you
can do.

This post will probably sound weird but after the day I have had it is
nice to see an "average joe" user (no offence meant by that) who
actually has common sense!

Thank you for restoring my faith in computer users!

</rant>

Sorry about that folks, went a bit OTT didn't i

 

[FromTheRafters]

I wish more computer users were like you. You secured the e-mail and
then you request help from the public. IMO this is the best thing you
can do.

This post will probably sound weird but after the day I have had it is
nice to see an "average joe" user (no offence meant by that) who
actually has common sense!

Thank you for restoring my faith in computer users!

</rant>

Sorry about that folks, went a bit OTT didn't i

Not really, I was thinking almost the same thing. After some
had been detaching, unzipping (with supplied password) and
executing malware where the e-mail body only said "Test :=)"
or something like that - it is indeed nice to have someone with
a clue avoid a halfway convincing SE ploy.

Too bad there aren't more like the OP.