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  • 08-05-2005 1:08am
    #1
    mp3guy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,959 ✭✭✭ 


    Account and Password Information are attached!

Visit: [url]http://www.mmp1.fz.fj.cn[/url]



*** Attachment-Scanner: Status OK
*** "EIRCOM" Anti-Virus
*** [url]http://www.eircom.net[/url]

    i didn't ask for any password... eircom anti virus? I think theres a new virus going around... Anyone else get anything similar?


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    #2
    CyberGhost
    Registered Users Posts: 5,553 ✭✭✭CyberGhost


    heh, that's interesting

    Thanks for posting it, I'll be more careful.


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    #3
    GoneShootin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,478 ✭✭✭GoneShootin


    Id say the way that Eircom is in "'s, would mean that its a generic email footer, trying to fool the recipient into thinking that its a legit email, cos my ISP says it is. Binnage


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    causal
    Registered Users Posts: 1,184 ✭✭✭causal


    Delete it, and then permanently remove it from your Trash.
    Why would eircom.net want you to visit a website with in the Chinese domain?
    No harm to do the usual scans - virus/spyware/etc. on your computer just in case.

    causal


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    #5
    MartMax
    Registered Users Posts: 1,667 ✭✭✭MartMax


    my advice is always ignore/delete/block e-mails from strangers especially abt anything that you wouldn't even know. or things from someone you know but couldn't be really from them. use ur instinct :cool:


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    Shane O' Malley
    Registered Users Posts: 1,373 ✭✭✭Shane O' Malley


    I assume you have an Eircom e-mail address. The footer just took your e-mail address domain and stuck it in.

    The website it links to has already been taken off the air but i think it is probable that it was a site designed to install some spyware or a trojan rather than trying to get your password.

    Lots of simular e-mails arriving at my work e-mail server with different footers but simular designs.


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