E-mail from Jane???

Kiith

i got an e-mail in my hotmail acc from someone called Jane. there was no subject to the e-mail and i don't know any Jane, so it's proboly spam or a virus, or some other ****, but i'm curious. i've updated my norton firewall tonight and wondering if i would be protected if it is a virus.

Eye

make sure you've done all your live updates and run scans to be on the safe side, my dad got 2 of them last week, luckly the first was picked up by the anti-virus when he went to open it, can't recall the name of the virus think it might have been a variant of the mydoom virus but can't say for sure, thankfully he had more sense and deleted the e-mail when he got it the second time round without opening it

dunno whayt it is about my dad's e-mail accounts he tends to get very little in the line of spam (maybe 4-5 a day between his 2 addresses) but has had about 5-6 virus e-mails in the last 2 months or so. meanwhile i get about 40-50 spam e-mails a day between my 3 e-mail accounts and have only ever recieved 1 e-mail with a virus attached .... go figure :rolleyes:

anyways safest thing to do is delete it and don't look back, run your scans and all later just to be sure, if in doubt delete it that's what i always say

Karoma

what was the contents of the body? attachments? (and if you still have the mail.. headers)

uberwolf

I got this from a jane this morning, no attachments though,
Subj: chain letter emails

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Sorry to bother you but I am hoping that you might be able to help
me, I found your e-mail address on a chain letter that was sent to me
and thought that as your name was on a chain letter you may have
other chain e-mail letters (forwards) that you could send to me?

I am doing a project at college regarding the different subjects that
go around the Internet on chain e-mail letters and how many people
they actually reach, I would be very grateful if you could send me
any that you have, absolutely anything and everything.

I would also be very grateful if you would be kind enough to forward
this e-mail to all your friends as I need as many as I can get my
hands on for the project to be a success.

Your help would very much be appreciated.

Thanks

Jane

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this the same one?

Static M.e.

Thats funny I wonder how many people replyed and gave out their live emaili addresss.

I read recently that spamers reckon a response from 1 in a million emails is a good turn over

uberwolf

as a address collector tis remarkably convincing, more so than the norm nyway I'd say.

Capt'n Midnight

Dear Jane
I get a lot of chain mail from chain mail researchers.
Yours etc.

I would also be very grateful if you would be kind enough to forward
this e-mail to all your friends as I need as many as I can get hands on for the project to be a success.