I received an email this morning that I'm worried about.

Discussion in 'Malware Help - MG (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by Maggie, Aug 7, 2004.

  1. Maggie

    Maggie Corporal

    Here is an email I received this morning and I'm worried
    about it. I have not contacted Time, Inc. by email.
    If any of you all have thoughts, could you comment
    please?

    After I received the email I was concerned and started
    going through Major Attitude's Tutorial for Spyware and
    Viruses. I did all the scans from Spybot to AVAST, with
    system restore turned off and in safe mode. Nothing
    showed up.

    Thanks,

    Maggie

    EMAIL:
    Time Inc. does not allow certain types of attached files to be delivered
    to external e-mail accounts. These files are considered "unsafe" and
    are a potential source of common computer viruses. A file attached to
    this message was found to be one of those types of "unsafe" files and
    was removed.

    Date = 08/07/2004, 11:00:06 AM
    Recipient(s) = <XXXXXXXXX@timeinc.com> (edited by Maggie)
    Subject = Mail Delivery (failure teachersguides@timeforkids.com)
    FileName(s) = message.scr

    Please contact the Time Inc. Service Desk in New York at extension x7777
    (212-522-7777 or 888-523-6279)or your I.T. representative if you have
    any questions or concerns, or to find out how to send a legitimate
    executable file.
     
  2. BeerMonkey

    BeerMonkey Master Sergeant

    "A file attached to
    this message was found to be one of those types of "unsafe" files and
    was removed. "
    They found the file(s) and removed them, i think your fine. :)
     
  3. Njal

    Njal Private E-2

    Chances are someone else has a virus which is spoofing the from lines on outgoing email. Its trying to send copies of the virus (the .scr file) and it will randomly pick peoples names for its "from" section from the infected computers address book.

    Nj
     
  4. Maggie

    Maggie Corporal

    Thanks to Beermonkey and Njal for responding.

    Beermonkey thanks for reassuring me that impending
    doom was not just around the corner for my computer. :)

    Njal thank you for explaining about why I received
    that email. :)


    Maggie
     

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