Spam or What

[Webtwink]

Ok, I this message in my email address [email protected]
I also got a mail delivery fail to some email and the sender was [email protected]

Now webtwink is my email address but i am getting confused. Here is the message
It also has an attachement!

Subject: Attention: To all gamers

More than 75.000 freeware games!!!

Genre:
-> 8500 online games = 3D Shooter, RPG, Action, Adventure, ...

non online games:
-> Action = 4200 games
-> 3D Shooter's = 7500 games
-> RPG's = 6800 games
-> Adventure's = 5400 games
-> ROM's for NES, SNES, PS1&2, GC ,GB, MD, SMS, .. = 29.000 ROM's
- others = 16900 games

all free!!

Download and enjoy

Attachment Name: www.freegames4you_gzone.com
.com file

Now, what should i do?

 

[Jamie_net]

When I get spam messages I just block the email, usually doesn't work though cause they all have 1000 addresses.

I wouldn't open the attachement if I were you.

 

[Jeff]

Originally posted by Webtwink
Now, what should i do?

Delete it, and right ... don't open the attachment. :cy:

 

[InteractAsia]

yeah the attachment is probably a virus

 

[armstrong]

Someone does the same thing to me once in a while. I think they are spamming other people, and simply set the from address to my email to save on bandwidth for the emails that come bouncing back. Its not such a big problem yet that I'll spend time hunting down the perpetrators, but I imagine someday I'll have to do something about it.

 

[Jeff]

Originally posted by InteractAsia
yeah the attachment is probably a virus

<<< ... I feel queezy! :tri:

:bah:

 

[Waldo]

Yea delete it. You don't want to take a chance.

 

[Darren]

I've never heard of a .com file before. I wonder if this info would be any useful:

http://filext.com/detaillist.php?extdetail=com

All in all, I'd just delete it. I wouldn't bother taking chances to open an attachment if I don't know what it is, or who it's from.

 

[Webtwink]

i think its a virus. But what took me was that the sender is my email address.

 

[Lord]

Interesting, but there are things that send as someones email, even if they don't have access to it.

 

[RJ]

Never open a .com file. It is an executable command file. .com files could be compiled .bat files, which contain a series of commands executed by DOS. It could delete files or even format your hard drive.

Very dangerous!

 

[Elefekt]

Good Info RJ I would have deleted in any case.

 

[phrone]

Good desicion :tu:

 

[InteractAsia]

you can check the full headers to trace where it originates from..

 

[Webtwink]

well i already deleted the file, so i don't think we can do anything about it now!