I just got this email... Look at the sent from address... It is a virus !!! I knew it was not a for real email, and scanned it anyways to prove my thoughts... It has the W32.Sober.o@mm VIRUS in the zip file. BEWARE ALL........................
There is one going through AIM as well, you will get a message from one of your buddies that says "Hey check this out" and the word 'this' will be a link. If you click the link it gets you to download a file and when it runs puts a virus on your computer and sends that same message to everyone in your buddy list and so on and so forth.
I got an obvious virus mail today....it was an email telling me that I had caught a virus and that I must open the attachment and follow the instructions to stop it. The email no address and no company tag. Would you have opened it? I sure didn't!
I get funky virus emails all the time. What I was trying to make a point here is the sender is V8ADMIN !!! What led them to try to target me from a possibility coming from this board. I figure there are other V8 boards out there, but it makes me think that my address came from somehow through here... Mike
I believe what you did was right, I never open weird and strange emails especially ones as listed above. If there is no address there is something wrong.
So this sort of explains something a coworker of mine asked me. He said he got my email that said okay, okay, but it was a zip and he couldn't open it. I told him I didn't send him anything. The part I can't figure out is that I don't even have his email in my address book. I never have even typed his email in my computer to send him anything.
I've been online 10 years and have never fallen for this sort of thing. When I send emails, people know that if I attach something, I will type an explanation - never "check this out, it's cool." It is hard to teach people at work (I'm one of the techies) not to open things from someone they don't know, but we're doing a decent job.
you gotta tell everybody no attachments Just always tell everyone that you can't click on anything in emails, unless you are expecting something from someone you know, and know what you are getting/doing. Otherwise, leave it alone and ask your "tech guy" or "tech grrrl". Or dump it, cuz it's spam. Simple. In fact everyone who uses email and has been paying half attention to computers and how they work, should not be having an issue with this. (I realise there will always be newbies-just like me and Buicks). This is the same advice tech people have been giving for a few years-don't open any attachments.
Zach, The way these work is someone who has both of your email addresses in THEIR computer has the virus. It uses addresses from their address book to fill in both the "To" and "From" on the infected email. So it appears it's coming from you, but instead it's from someone that you know mutually (in your case, I suspect the boss) :Brow: .
If you've ever (eveeeeerrrrrr) posted your email like "something@somewhere.com", a bot that trolls internet sites might have grabbed it. Always post it as something like "something [at] somewhere [dot] com". People know what it is then and bots don't grab it.
