Odd email

MiCr0

i just got an odd email from myself and to myself.
it was sent from a cork dialup seemingly.
any ideas?
the name/email are correct

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seamus

I got an odd one this morning too. Titled "Encrypted Document", it had no attachments, and a shedload of embedded ActiveX controls. Turns out it's a variant of Bagle.

I opened it in OE, but I've ActiveX controls disabled by default. I'm guessing a lot of others won't and those using webmail will be particularly vunerable.

Who the **** is creating these variants? :mad:

SheroN

amp is.

Tom Dunne

Originally posted by seamus
I got an odd one this morning too. Titled "Encrypted Document",

Wow. That's bizarre - I got an e-mail from with the same subject from a friends company e-mail address. Thing is, she left the company over two years ago and I checked her account - it doesn't exist.

Fortunately our virus checkers seem to have caught it on the Exchange end. You have to hand it to the virus writing scum, they are inventive.

mickeyboymel

Quick queston.................when you see the contents of the email in the lower half (preview pain) in Outlook, does this constitute having opened the email, or do you have to physically open it to be infected.

I have got loads of these sinceMonday, but once I updated Norton, it now transfers them into Spam, and removes all the threats.

seamus

Originally posted by mickeyboymel
Quick queston.................when you see the contents of the email in the lower half (preview pain) in Outlook, does this constitute having opened the email, or do you have to physically open it to be infected.

No, the preview pane counts as having opened. Good idea and all the preview pane is, its just too risky to have it turned on.

mickeyboymel

Thanks Seamus, that explains why Im getting so many, they know the emails are getting through so they send more............better turm it off