unknown origin of easter e mail i received

[Guest]

i received an easter e mail, downloaded it to my download files, but am unable to open it. what do i do?

 

[dev]

/[email protected]/ said:

I received an easter e mail, downloaded it to my download files, but am unable to open it. what do i do?

Ask the sender to describe its nature and filetype - if there was an
attachment.

If it was unsolicited, from an unknown party, delete it.

 

[krok dundee]

(e-mail address removed) uttered the following on 4/11/2004 9:36 AM:

i received an easter e mail, downloaded it to my download files, but am unable to open it. what do i do?

if you don't know who or why it was sent, delete it ! best advice.

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Delete it unless you are sure of its origin. Contact the sender - did they
send it to you intentionally?

Did the file have a .exe, .scr, .com, .bat, .pif, or other similar extension
and did you attempt to open it? If so, it is highly likely that it was, in
fact, a virus disguised as something to trick you into opening it. If you
tried to run it, and nothing seemed to happen, then chances are something
actually did happen - you were infected, and just don't know it. Update your
antivirus software immediately and run a full system scan.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Windows
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

 

[Zoolook]

This may or may not be the case depending on your setup or folder options
etc....

But regarding file extensions... a file called "Attatcment.txt" could be a
masked executable too... ie "Attatchment.txt.exe"... an old problem most
people know about, but some newer users get caught out by it still.

Its a bit of a bugbear with long filenames unfortunately.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

Well, since you say you don't know the origin of the email, the
_only_ sensible thing to do would be to delete it. And then perform a
very thorough scan of your hard drive using a good antivirus
application with current virus definition files. Hopefully, you
haven't done too much damage to your data.


Bruce Chambers

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