strange emails from users

[Macs]

everyday i have been getting emails from people with three wheeler names that look familiar. i think it is people from this forum. my hotmail blocks the attachment permanetly. i get about one a day from diffrent users. all it says is please veiw attachment. is anyone else getting these.

[twgranger]

No :?

[trikerider2oo7]

i aint been gettin any

[yamaha225dx]

my hotmail has been giving me these mailer dameon failure things.... it sucks

[renotrikeguy]

I got two of them myself. But my anti-virus told me they contained a virus so they got deleted.

[Trikeaholic]

heck ya! on my yahoo account bulk mail folder. They are obviously fake names, stuff like "350X@hotmail" stuff like that. All subjects say "hey" or "thanks very much" or some other BS. I just delete them. But if it someone on this site sending me viruses then heres to you azzhole

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[ATC crazy]

I've never gotten any...although junk mail is another story.... :x

[Trikeaholic]

just got another one from "skoorpio@yahoo.com" subject was "hello" what kind of tool would fall for such a scam??

[hrc200x]

Barry said he got one from me, but I never even knew his email addy until he replied back to me telling me he got a email from my address. I do get about 10 emails a day in hotmail and yahoo with 24k attachments, I havn't opened one yet so don't know what is going on.

[TimSr]

The way a lot of these viruses work is that they will get into a persons address book, and send emails from one person in the address book to another in the address book. The actual person with the virus doesnt show in the email. One board member probably has the virus, and those of you receiving these emails are probably in his address book.

[TRI-Zbrian]

omg im not the only one :shock: i get about 3 every day but luckly yahoo has a virus detecter and every one i have been geting yahoo has detected a virus on.... whats going on how do i stop these they are getting very very annoying.

[3 weelin geezer]

recently I keep getting refinancing offers for my house. Problem is, I don't have one. Used to be not long ago I got invites from strange women and some that seemed like they came from gay men. I just toss them away since I am never more than mildly happy. Except when I am riding my trike I suppose. Then I would rate my happines as being....elated. :D

[Howdy]

I get this virus sent to me a few hundred times a week. It averages 1-2 per hour. Such emails are helped along by people that don't run a anti virus program. These are the same people that complain when they get infected with a virus.

I was getting over 300 junk emails a day. How ever lately I have been using mailwasher ( www.mailwasher.com ) along with the free junk mail filter that bright.net provides me. Any spam that gets through the one gets caught in the other. I just simply bounce the email back. I have cut the junk email back to 50 or less a day now.

Viruses: My ISP filters 99.99% of the viruses out of my email ( for free ). They use Mc Afee to do this. To be better protected I run Nortons on my personal computer. Every email is scanned a total of 3 times before I can view it. My days of getting a virus are pretty much gone. I just checked my web based email filter. It shows I had 11 viruses sent to me since 10:20 Pm last night. They are always slow at night.


Here is another one to watch out for: Lately I have been getting emails that say: RE: Question for seller -- Item #281699565 . My advice is if you do not have a GOOD anti virus program then do not open it. This could be a infected email. The item number always seems to change for each email. I look at the number and if it isn't any number I know then I delete it.

How it seems to work lately: You open the email and another window pops open. This is a infected web page. The virus is built into the page and gets loaded onto your computer. Without a GOOD anti-virus program you could get infected. I run Nortons and it has caught a few of them that the wife had opened. She no longer opens any with such a title.

Howdy

[3WheelsForever]

I also thought I was the only one. Im getting a lot of emails saying the mailer dameon failure things like yamaha225dx. It just started about 2 days or so ago.

[Trikeaholic]

just got another one

trizbrian@yahoo.com Re: Excel file

WTF????

have to have the wife look at the computer virus detector tonite