Does anyone else get email like this?

[KillerMuffin]

Hi! How are you?

I send you this file in order to have your advice

See you later. Thanks



The files so far have been:

: PK250W32.zip.pif (994k) from hownsu@....
: Eny23.ZIP.com (552k) from hownsu@....
: ScenicOverlook.doc.pif (253k) from ibi-regan@....
: Chapter10.doc.lnk (251k) from goglin@....
: 3334-010.doc.bat (216k) p.darragh@....
: C10P19CRASHED.xls.bat (238k) from goglin@....

All of it has been the exact same HI how are you! bit, all of it has those fucked up .xxx.xxx endings. I haven't opened any of them. I think these things are highly weird and they're all coming from the same email server, which I left off to protect privacy. Why in the hell are they sending me .bat files???

Is anyone else getting this? Has anyone opened these? Are they legitimate or what?

 

[SteamyChik]

I have been getting a lot of things with weird attachments too. Not the exact ones you mentioned though. If I don't know who it's from I delete them without opening them. For that matter, even if I do know who it's from, if the endings are weird, I delete them too. I figure if it's legit, they will email back and explain better.

A virus just got the entire city network near me, so I'm on the lookout for them now.

Sigh, I hate email viruses.

 

[Mickie]

VIRUS!

These are all a new virus. Delete them without opening!!!!! I just got wind of it myself through MOTORCHROME.COM. It seems to be all over the place.

Mick

 

[Sonia_de_Beaumanoir]

email virus

I make it a rule to never open any attachment with an .exe or .vbs suffix. Also if I get a MS Word doc with macros, I never enable them. These are the major ways email viruses get propagated.

 

[Whispersecret]

Well, don't I feel smart. I wrote back to the unknown Sam person saying I didn't know him and wouldn't open attachments from someone I didn't know. I got another email in response that was the same as the first one.

Good to know I avoided something nasty.

 

[Harbinger]

Can't be too careful

practice safe cyber sex, and always use a virtual condom; i.e. good antivirus software, and keep it up to date.

 

[julie-ann]

If you go to the Symantec research center

www.symantec.com

they have a write-up on this particular virus, called sircam.worm.

I love that website....lol.