E-mail account security warning.

[Charlotte Gilruth]

Dear user, the management of Yahoogroups.com mailing system wants to let you know that,

Our antivirus software has detected a large ammount of viruses outgoing
from your email account, you may use our free anti-virus tool to clean up
your computer software.

For details see the attached file.

For security purposes the attached file is password protected. Password is "56164".

Kind regards,
The Yahoogroups.com team http://www.yahoogroups.com
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[Jean Doherty]

Please advise. Does this mean my computer at my E-mail address or is it a
more general warning. I have not opened attached file mentioned. Is it
bono-fide. Worried+++ Jean

[Steve Scrutton]

I was not sure either, I have been getting rather a lot of these emails,
sender unknown, strange messages, asking you to open an attached file.

My response - just delete it. I would wager that it is no genuine.

Steve Scrutton
Registrar, Alliance of Registered Homeopaths
Homeopathy: a safe, gentle and effective medical therapy

[tcsim]

Don't trust any of these as they may be spoof. Delete the email asap; and do
not open any attachment.
If you suspect that your PC is infected.
Use your own anti-virus. If you do not have one installed, it's time to go
out and buy one...for prevention is better than cure.

rgds
TC

[Sheri Nakken]

JUST ANOTHER spam trying to send computer virus but list screens them out

At 09:11 AM 04/09/2004 +1000, you wrote:
let you
clean up
Password is
and
regarding the
punitive
and educational benefit of its members. It makes no representations
regarding the individual suitability of the information contained in any
document read or advice or recommendation offered which appears on this
website and/or email postings for any purpose. The entire risk arising out
of their use remains with the recipient. In no event shall the minutus site
or its individual members be liable for any direct, consequential,
incidental, special, punitive or other damages whatsoever and howsoever
caused.
subject of 'Digest' to minutusgroup@yahoo.com to receive a single daily
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[Allen Coniglio]

Just look at the spelling and poor organization of the so called "warning".
This is a sure sign of a hoax and such things should always be deleted.

Allen

[Barbara Stephenson]

Hi Jean

This sounds very suspicious to me and I would advise you not to open any
attachments at all. You should only ever open attachments if you are 100 %
sure that you are expecting this attachment and can trust it.

The latest virus (worms) have texts which make it more and more plausible to
open the attachments. You have to resist.

The virus are sometimes sent out with impossible email address concoctions
as senders, but also with a genuine sounding email address as sender. An
infected computer will harvest any address it finds and send out emails
using those harvested addresses as sender and as receiver.

The AVG Antivirus programme is free and good:

http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php
(any antivirus programme is only good if it is updated, my Norton updates
just about daily, at times twice a day at the moment).

If anybody thinks that they might have a virus, they should run Housecall
(free) first:

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

Barbara
(who catches 3 - 12 virus emails in the Yahoo Bulk Folder daily, Yahoo
usually puts them there)

[Jenny Decker]

Hello, there was no attached file on your email, so it's hard to tell what "see attached file" refers to.