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| Thread ID: 55181 | 2005-03-04 22:57:00 | This sound like a virus? | Shortcircuit (1666) | Press F1 |
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| 330699 | 2005-03-04 22:57:00 | I've just received an e-mail to my hotmail acct, no subject line so got dumped to bulk mail. Several strange things: It has a .Rar extension (15.9kb) and I'm sure I read somewhere that there is a new virus that can come as a .rar The senders name is the same as the 1st part of my HM address but clicking on senders properties shows their full e-mail address as follows: (1st part of my HM address) then their name ***@att.net So, should AVG have scanned this e-mail without me opening it? Is it safe (or a good idea) to save the .rar file to disk and scan with AVG before I open it? should I just delete it and restrain my curiosity? (a very hard thing to do!) |
Shortcircuit (1666) | ||
| 330700 | 2005-03-04 23:03:00 | Up to you and your rampant curiousity but anything like that i just biff straight off. | mark c (247) | ||
| 330701 | 2005-03-04 23:04:00 | If you don't know the sender, or where the file is from, DON'T open attachments, under any circumstances . End of story . Thats how ppl get viruses, trojans etc in the first place . They want to know whats in the attachment . Delete it . If curiousity killed the cat, it'll also kill your system . |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 330702 | 2005-03-04 23:08:00 | If you don't know the sender, or where the file is from, DON'T open attachments, under any circumstances . End of story . Thats how ppl get viruses, trojans etc in the first place . They want to know whats in the attachment . Delete it . I agree just leave it |
sambaird (47) | ||
| 330703 | 2005-03-04 23:13:00 | Thanks guys . Yeah, obviously that's the sensible thing to do . believe it or not in 15 yrs on the net I've never had anything that looks like a virus, so was more thinking of how I could confirm it by scanning it . It seems that with AVG the only way to do that is save the rar file to disk . . . something I'm not keen on doing so sort of catch 22! |
Shortcircuit (1666) | ||
| 330704 | 2005-03-04 23:18:00 | Use AVG to scan you inbox, as it is already on your computer anyway. | Rob99 (151) | ||
| 330705 | 2005-03-04 23:23:00 | I've never had a virus either but one day I got a bit of crudmail looked pretty much like a virus so I backed out, updated my AV then went back and opened the attachment just to see what happened and "whack" AVG caught it and quarantined it. Interesting. Of course AVG could quite possibly have not identified the virus but it was interesting anyway. Like kids playing matches maybe. (I did) |
mark c (247) | ||
| 330706 | 2005-03-04 23:33:00 | I had a suspicious email similar to yours come in not so long ago without any fanfare from AVG and, like you, was tempted to see what it was but resisted. Left it in my Attachments folder then a few days later new AVG definition updates came in and immediately jumped on it when the folder was scanned. Can't remember what virus it was now but I do remember being thankful that I hadn't opened it. | FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 330707 | 2005-03-04 23:37:00 | ive never had a problem with those nasties in gmail..... | Prescott (11) | ||
| 330708 | 2005-03-04 23:44:00 | Hmmm, I like the idea of playing with matches. I also own a dog as I was going through cats too quickly... even with them having 9 lives :D I did download updated refs for AVG a minute ago and scanned again with same result... at least I am resisting the urge so far, just can't bring myself to hit the delete key :o |
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