new stupid email threat

[Dijos]

I got an email, about 41 kb, from someone I don't know, with an .scr extention. I haven't seenthis one before, but it has too many warning signs.
watch out.

 

[L6steel]

Last week I got a couple emails with attachments and the sender was listed as the first 7 or 8 letters of my email address, lol. Thought that was kind of an obvious one, must be a young skunk butt.

 

[DaveH]

I got some a couple of weeks ago from "Iternet Thieves". I kid you not. I didn't open it.

 

[Bob W]

It's only a threat if you click on the attachment or download it to your computer. You should find an e-mail program, MailWasher for example, that lets you preview and delete e-mail directly from the mail server.

-Bob

 

[Mellow Chaos]

If you preview some html formatted emails in Outlook's preview pane, some malicious scripts may be run that way as well. If your email comes over as HTML, you really don't even have to open it anymore for it to be a threat.