Just whatever you do never open any file or attachement... You must delete it rightway....
I being receiving e-mails from someone trying to pretend they are from PayPal company, but they are not and they are only trying to infect my computer... Yep real CRUEL people out there...
Just a heads up....it appears that there is another nasty email worm is spreading and someone who has me listed on their address book has the worm, thus causing bogus emails to be sent out with my address listed. Please be assured I was careful enough not to infect my computer and did not send any of these messages with the bad file attached.
DO NOT open any attachments with the name message.zip ( a .zip file), as this will cause you to be infected to.
Viruses (worms) such as this one are usually not sent from the computer of the person whose email address appears as the sender. Here is a quote from the link that Tiara provided.
"Upon activation — usually when a recipient clicks on an e-mail attachment — the rogue program searches though address books and sends itself to e-mail addresses it finds. It chooses one as the sender, so recipients may believe the message comes from someone known."
A couple of years ago, another worm was making the rounds (Klez). People on TER Boston were accusing each other of sending the virus. Wherever it's coming from, you can assume that the person doesn't know that their computer is infected. For instance, you could get this virus in an email from me. However, the email probably came from another person's computer who had both of our email addresses in their address book.
I've attached a link to Norton Antivirus' (Symantec) page explain this virus and the removal procedure.
Just whatever you do never open any file or attachement... You must delete it rightway....
I being receiving e-mails from someone trying to pretend they are from PayPal company, but they are not and they are only trying to infect my computer... Yep real CRUEL people out there...
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