Any one know why eircom would be on about??

simonp1

Dear user, the management of Eircom.net mailing system wants to let you know that,

Your e-mail account will be disabled because of improper using in next
three days, if you are still wishing to use it, please, resign your
account information.

Pay attention on attached file.

In order to read the attach you have to use the following password: *****

The Management,
The Eircom.net team

ChipZilla

It's a scam - look how bad the grammar is.

Hmm. :rolleyes:

Tried contacting eircom? And don't reply to that mail...

oscarBravo

More likely a virus, if the attached is a .zip file.

RobertFoster

as a rule of thumb, anythng that's impersonal ("Dear User" "Dear Member" "Dear <email address>" etc.) and that's signed non-descriptly ("Eircom Team" "Sales Dept." and so on) with an attachment is a virus.

Hugh_C

Originally posted by simonp1
In order to read the attach you have to use the following password: *****/B]

scam or virus. don' do it. do, however figure out how to look at "full headers" in your email client and see what route the email took to get to you. If it didn't come directly from eircom, then it's misrepresentation. Headers can be forged though, so it isn't fail safe, just a reasonable place to start

Mutant_Fruit

VIRUS VIRUS VIRUS.

Don't open it.

Think about it for a second, badly written message, badly signed message, requesting you open an attached file... all bad signs.

I got a very similar one a few weeks ago from the "ntlworld team" (except it said my account WAS disabled.. but if my acount was disabled, how would i have gotten the e-mail).

cgarvey

simonp1, you very badly need virus protection software, because you appear not to have any, and are not savvy enough to know dodgy attachments, when you see them.

There is free-for-non-commercial-use virus protection software called AVG Anti-virus.. which you should use, if you don't want to pay for the likes of Norton or McAfee. Do keep the virus definitions up to date (the software will do that for you reasonably automatically).

The attachement is most definately a virus, a well publicised one at that, despite the doubt a couple of users have expressed here.

HTH

.cg

Cabaal

I wounder just how many EirCon users have been caught by this one doing the rounds, I get loads of these from the admin of mydomainame, funnily enough I am the admin of the domainame

simonp1

cheers I partly guessed it was suspect but the Eircom threw me off abit
I have the latest mcfee product so it stopped the attachment