Possible infected email

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I have been on this forum a while now and only post when something catches my interest.

I have just gone into my personnal non Truck Net email and found mail from ;

London@astran.com

When I opened this email there was a message “see the attached for further information” the attached was a .zip file.

Thru my work I have always been warned that files like this contain viruses or worms.

Just be aware that this is about, I may be being over cautious but dont want an infection on my machine. My virus scanner did not report it as infected but may not til you try and open the attachment.

Moderators - if this is in the wrong forum then move to the one you think is best

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The email probably wasn’t from Astrans.

Virus writers configure their viruses to appear as though the virus has come from a known source- is Astrans in your address book?

Either way, it’s important to remember that an infected user is not “to blame” for being infected, any more than you can be “blamed” for having flu.

Vince

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Vince

I have no Astran in my email but I know what you mean the sender is just a host name not necessarily the person sending the mail.

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i get loads of dodgey looking emails. they normally say something about failed delivery from my email address and contain and attachment of either 29kb or 40kb. i dont even bother opening them now. i have a virus killer that wont let me download the attachments anyway if they are infected

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i do sometimes forward them to one of the others though :smiling_imp:
its like junk snailmail. people stick them in an envelope and send them back. i do that with the infected emails but instead of returning them, i send them to another address from whom i received an infected email

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Don’t save your addresses. Most mass worms send them to email addresses in your address book. Don’t keep an address book online. In outlook and in web page email try to make sure that address books are empty. If you get dodgey emails, just delete them. Don’t open them.

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I have our e mail system set up so all emails with attachments are deleted at server & do not even reach our system.

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I delete emails that I don’t know who they are from
and especially if they have an attachment.

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You can put anything into a zip file-pictures, movies, text-anything. Click on the file, open WinZip, and see what is inside the zip file. If it’s a bunch of .doc, .txt, .jpg, .bmp, .mov files, it’s safe. If it includes .dll or .exe files, trashcan it.

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My AV programme can check zip files, without me unzipping them first. So, if I get an e-mail with an attatchment, I can check whether it contains anything it shouldn’t and delete it if I want to.
I would be surprised if mine was the only AV programme capable of this. It would almost certainly be a major point in thier advertising campaign.