Considering my Nortons email scanner ripped the attachment out of the following email, you'd think it was working fine and evil viruses would struggle to get through. Far as I'm aware, I haven't had virus trouble in the three years I've used it.
Add to that the fact it arrived via my blog email address, and not the one on the Bigpond contact page.
On the other hand, you never can tell....
Dear user of e-mail server "Bigpond.com",Some of our clients complained about the spam (negative e-mail content) outgoing from your e-mail account. Probably, you have been infected by a proxy-relay trojan server. In order to keep your computer safe, follow the instructions.
Advanced details can be found in attached file.
Password - *****
Have a good day,
The Bigpond.com team .... http://www.bigpond.com
Seemed fishy to me. I rang the Bigpond hotline and not surprisingly, they've got some major problems of their own -- not suggesting it's anything to do with this email -- and they're off line.
Something not quite right here. Beware!
yeah, sounds like one of the netsky virus variants. anything like this trying to get you to open an attachment.... well i'm glad our users usually don't have the choice because our virus scanner strips them as well.
it wasn't always this way, we used to have some very red faced users after they opened something they shouldn't and emailed all users
Posted by: rat | 28 April 2004 at 23:35
99.999%+ it's a Netsky variant. I get 2-5 e-mails daily reading something like (I quote)
Posted by: Alan E Brain | 29 April 2004 at 01:06