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Subject: BS: Beware of sensational headlines! From: GUEST,Peter Woodruff Date: 08 Apr 07 - 09:27 PM I just was alerted to two virus infected emails in my inbox. The first one read "USA Missle Strike: Iran War just have started" and the second one read "Israel Just Have Started World War III." To confirm these, I went to About at http://antivirus.about.com/b/a/257843.htm More titles were named at this site so BEWARE! Peter |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beware of sensational headlines! From: Little Hawk Date: 08 Apr 07 - 09:57 PM "Rapture have begun! George Bush vanish at White House!" "End of world have started as California fall into Pacific Ocean!" These are emails you've just gotta open, right? I mean, who wouldn't? ;-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beware of sensational headlines! From: GUEST,Peter Woodruff Date: 08 Apr 07 - 10:02 PM I think I would run a virus scan first. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beware of sensational headlines! From: Little Hawk Date: 08 Apr 07 - 10:11 PM Darn right! But in my case I simply delete all "bulk" messages on principle without opening them in the first place. I don't care what they say. The better it sounds, the more chance it isn't. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beware of sensational headlines! From: Sorcha Date: 08 Apr 07 - 10:12 PM Well, doh. I'm a believer but just not sure in what. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beware of sensational headlines! From: GUEST,Peter Woodruff Date: 08 Apr 07 - 10:20 PM Spelling and grammar is a gud tipoff. Peter |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beware of sensational headlines! From: Ebbie Date: 08 Apr 07 - 11:07 PM The Israel one that Peter W referred to also came to me. My virus catcher caught and isolated it, where I deleted it. Like all of you, there is no way I would open anything that glaringly obvious. Might not all be viruses but not one would be worth reading. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beware of sensational headlines! From: katlaughing Date: 09 Apr 07 - 12:05 AM Thanks for the heads-up, Peter. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beware of sensational headlines! From: JohnInKansas Date: 09 Apr 07 - 03:18 AM I think I would run a virus scan first Well now, yes, you certainly should run a virus scan on all incoming stuff, and especially on emails and most especially in instant messages. It cannot, however, be assumed that malicious messages will contain a virus, or that your "automatic defenses" will reliably detect them all. A very common current malware ploy currently is send messages that do not contain anything viral, but that contain a link for you to click or a web address "you should go to." The site to which you are linked may or may not be the one that the link looks like it will take you to, but may, when you connect, automatically download malware to you. The malware that is downloaded may look, to your AV defenses, like a program that you asked for, and only needs to contain an instruction for your computer to re-connect at a later time, automatically or when "called," to the same or to another site where the real malware can be downloaded. In some cases, all that's needed is for the initial program to open a port so that a later scan by the "managers" of the malware may find your machine by scanning the net. "The easiest sucker to con is the one who thinks he/she's too smart to be taken." Don't look. Don't read. Don't Click. DELETE - antyhing that you do not positively recognize as being from a known and trusted source. John |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beware of sensational headlines! From: Donuel Date: 09 Apr 07 - 09:46 AM When a bad forgery regarding "yellow cake" can become the foundation for invading a sovergn nation, any rumor can snowball. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beware of sensational headlines! From: leeneia Date: 10 Apr 07 - 09:30 AM "I simply delete all "bulk" messages on principle" Last week I got a pleasing e-mail from my credit-card company saying that they had reversed a charge. It came into the Bulk mail folder. What's a girl to do? Thanks for the info, Peter and John. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beware of sensational headlines! From: GUEST,, goodlookin'one Date: 10 Apr 07 - 09:50 AM It just takes a modicum of common sense. Looking for bad grammar or incorrect English is no precaution. And this proves it |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beware of sensational headlines! From: Ebbie Date: 10 Apr 07 - 12:40 PM And sometimes it's just a gut feeling. For instance, I will not be the first one to open goodlookin'one's link. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beware of sensational headlines! From: Little Hawk Date: 10 Apr 07 - 07:18 PM Right, leeneia. That happens. Some legitimate messages are identified as "bulk". Here's what I do....I do a quick visual scan of all the titles and subjects of the 25 to 30 bulk messages that come in a day, all of which got dumped into a common "bulk" list by my email program. It takes all of about 10 seconds to do that visual scan. If I recognize one of them as a legit message from someone I want to hear from, I then move it into my inbox and read it. I delete all the others. |
