Posted by Sylvia_FL on 10/19/09 7:58am
Msg #307787

E-mail worm

I got an e-mail yesterday from, supposedly, one of my notaries, in it was a link to a blogspot with a Russian looking name, vsevoloddzeniskevich9. There was no message in the e-mail just the link. Knowing the notary as well as I do I didn't click on the link, but I e-mailed her to ask if she had sent it. She hadn't.
So, watch out for suspicious e-mails. One is obviously making the notary rounds.

Reply by Tess/ME on 10/19/09 8:20am
Msg #307791

Thanks for the "heads up" Sylvia. I've had so many more emails in the past couple of months that I can hardly keep up with them but I try to skim through just in case it's important.

Reply by Sylvia_FL on 10/19/09 8:42am
Msg #307792

Any time I get an e-mail with a link in it that looks suspicious I check with the person who supposedly sent it. I have ChoiceMail One, to control spam etc, but the notary is on my approved list so it downloaded into my Inbox.

Reply by Ilene C. Seidel on 10/19/09 11:43am
Msg #307802

I had a worm get into my address book from my Blackberry bout a week ago, what a mess. Had to email everyone not to open it.

Reply by Linda_H/FL on 10/19/09 12:22pm
Msg #307803

LOL Ilene..how do you do that and get your message

across? How do you e-mail everyone not to open your e-mail??...LOL

J/K I hope you realize......I'm sorry - just sounds so funny!

Reply by MW/VA on 10/19/09 2:08pm
Msg #307818

Re: LOL Ilene..how do you do that and get your message

LOL. That is an amusing scenario. Quick--email everyone & tell them not to open my emails!!!!
Tech world humor, for sure.

Reply by Linda Juenger on 10/19/09 3:57pm
Msg #307828

Re: LOL Ilene..how do you do that and get your message

I got an email from a cousin last week. Something just didn't look right. It had the word Korea in the body of the email and that is what tipped me. Gave me a chance to call her and talk, and no she didn't send it. Be careful out there.

Reply by JanetK_CA on 10/19/09 8:53pm
Msg #307859

another thing...

I've been getting almost daily notices from my ISP (Earthlink) that they've quarantined a message sent to me that had a virus that couldn't be removed. They are primarily from three supposed senders: UPS Delivery Notice (or something - I don't remember exactly and didn't save it), 123Greetings, and Hallmark, although recently they have been from individuals, with messages related to package delivery. Today there was one from "Microsoft Windows Agent".

When I received the first one, it was one of the UPS Delivery ones and I'd just dropped off a set of documents to UPS, which is unusual for me. (Most of my clients still use FedEx, although that seems to be changing...) I almost followed the instructions to see if there was a problem, but remembered that they didn't have my email address.

These seem to be aimed primarily at Earthlink, but you never know. Thankfully, they are blocking them before they get to me. Bottom line, another reminder to make sure we have our anti-virus software up to date, just in case...

Reply by Linda_H/FL on 10/20/09 6:11am
Msg #307868

Just received an e-mail overnight

from someone that I absolutely, positively KNOW will not send me e-mails (got it twice as a matter of fact) - although I recognized the name of the sender and did open the e-mail I didn't click on the link, which had something to do with rplcontroller dot com...it was also sent to many people, including a couple other family members, a couple credit card companies, a bank customer service dept....