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04-23-2004, 08:12 PM
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Certified Audio Nut
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Strange Email
I just recieved the following message in my Hotmail inbox:
From: Mail Delivery Service Subject: Delivery Status Notification - These recipients of your message have been processed by the mail server: bobmd@arabia.com; Failed; 5.1.1 (bad destination mailbox address) Remote MTA 66.28.189.160: SMTP diagnostic: 551 deactivated mailbox I did not send this nor do I know what that address is. What could this be? There is also a 600kb attatchment which I will not open.
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04-23-2004, 08:30 PM
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Sounds like a virus sending out spoofed e-mails to me.
Edit* Doesn't necessarily mean that you have a virus.
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04-23-2004, 09:21 PM
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Delete it. I've had similar emails. The first and only one that I opened the attachment on ended up being adware. My rule of thumb is if I don't know who sent it or it looks strange I delete it.
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04-23-2004, 09:24 PM
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Yeah, it's just something to delete.
You might want to tell Hotmail that their virus filter missed one. |
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04-23-2004, 09:37 PM
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Location: Florence, Mississippi
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Actually HiHo, your best bet, since MSN is your ISP, close out the email, and right click it. Then pull down and click block sender. You will get a large question block, just ignore what it says and click yes, then delete it. That way that particular mailer can't reach you with that address.thorlo6
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04-23-2004, 10:06 PM
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Certified Audio Nut
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Location: Washington State
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I always block strange messages and I never open attatchements. I had just never seen one like this before. BTW, MSN is not my ISP. I just use Hotmail.
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04-25-2004, 03:25 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Australia
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I have received the same to both my Hotmail account and my university one... they were both viruses for me, they're sent with really random emails in the hope you'll wonder what it was you sent
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