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heathesq

Jun 4, 2004, 4:28 AM

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Is this a virus

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For the past few weeks I have been receiving a storm of virii - basically all kinds of messages asking me to open an attached file. The last one says....
Hello user of Mexconnect.com e-mail server, 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. For further details see the attach. For security reasons attached file is password protected. The password is "35745". Cheers, The Mexconnect.com team http://www.mexconnect.com

I can't imagine being arbitrairily bumped off a service I paid for without getting more information and instruction on what to do. So I don't think this message is real.

Is it? What am I suposed to do?

Roger Heath

PBGollaz

Jun 4, 2004, 6:13 AM

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Re: [heathesq] Is this a virus

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Your intuition has served you well! The message is a hoax, designed to get you to post personal information about your account. There has recently been a deluge of this type of message, purporting to be from e-mail system administrators, credit card companies, banks, PayPal, etc. No legitimate business will ask you for private/secret information via e-mail. Delete the message and don't respond under any circumstances.

Patrick
Zapopan, Jalisco, México

(This post was edited by Patricio B on Jun 4, 2004, 6:16 AM)

RickS

Jun 4, 2004, 8:53 AM

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Re: [heathesq] Is this a virus

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Those of us who have been around computers all of our lives have a (self-preserving) rule about opening email from someone we don't know...... WE DON'T !!!

And I don't just mean an attachment, I mean don't even read (open) a new message if you don't recognize the sender. Once one opens it one has 'opened' themselves to all sorts of possibilities, most of them not good.

So my rule is "if I don't recognize the sender of an email, my delete-key is the key of choice" and I never wonder who that might have been.