weird emails i've been getting.. help

[jon321]

for the past few months i've been getting blank emails that show to be around 110-140kb, but there are no attachments. all the email addresses that the emails are sent from come from websites that based locally to me. then today i finally got one that said something. it said
"This is a new game
This game is my first work.
You're the first player.
I hope you would enjoy it."
weird, huh? i have a firewall too. can anyone help me figure out what's going on?
-jon

[Statica]

99.99% probability its a virus. I'm torn between categorizing it as Klez or Eira.A; anyhoo Ihope you have a good antivirus.

[jon321]

if it's a virus, would it be located on my computer? i'll run a full system scan tonight to check. also, is there anything i can do with the information included in the full header?

[Statica]

Dont worry about the sender information, either of those are capable of propagating without the server having knowledge of it , your best bet is to run a scan using an updated antivirus, maybe using 2 different antivirii progs. Mind you, every "virus" infected mail is not going to show up as an attachment on your email prog. (am hoping its not Outhouse).

<b>Mind you, if you do get certain variations of Klez, it does not need you to execute an attachment - it exploits IE vulnerabilities</b>

[Force Flow]

Klez was floating around my school. Suprisingly, Norton corp. ed. didn't catch it.

[cqdx73]

I never open unsolicited email. And I never open email from an
email address that I do not know.

I do this with the assumption that this will keep me from getting
a virus from such emails as those mentioned above.

I simply delete them and move on.

I seem to be haveing pretty good luck this way, unless I am
infected and dont even know it.

So my question is, am I correct in my assumptions.

Thanks

[RenegadeKing]

Not nessasarily. In fact, a lot of viruses that you can get will be coming from a friend's email. The virus will send itself to everyone in the address book of the infected computer. And just looking at the message can infect your computer with some viruses. But this mainly only happens with Outlook.

[jon321]

well, i ran an updated norton antivirus and it got nothing. also, i'm using yahoo mail but not through outlook but through IE 5. and i was still wondering why all those similar emails are coming from addresses local to me. maybe a local server is infected?

[Statica]

depends on what you use to "open" your emails .. some of the clients that are notorious, have it openned the moment you get it in from the server!

[mairving]

I have gotten a slew of these at work also with the exact same topic. My theory is that some kid sent them out and forgot to attach the virus.

Nearly all viruses that I get are either .exe, .bat, .pif or .scr. Block all of those and you are a whole lot safer.

[jon321]

okay so i also think now it's Klez or Eira.A as statica said. i've been reading up on them and their characteristics are similar to what i've been recieving. nothing for me to worry about i guess. i don't think i've been infected. thanks for the help.

[glc]

Yahoo filters viruses at the server if I'm not mistaken - the file sizes you see are before the attachments are discarded.

[jon321]

that clears it up even more. thanks.