Beware
Last Update: February 27, 2015
I received an email today consisting of a court summons complete with paper clip to fool the unwary. Obviously I deleted this straight away, and I advise anyone receiving such things to do the same.
If I'd have opened the paper clip, I would doubtless have been infected with a p.c. trojan. This is a known issue, but I've not seen this particular one in the U.K.
Apparently it originates from a server in the U.S.A, and as there are a lot of people within WA who live there, please be aware.
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ShirleyWoon
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Thank you so much for the heads up Alastair.
I've had my share of trojans in the past where someone had opened one and it's form of infection was to send out the same message using every email address saved in my address book. I had opened one that was from a known personal friend. The only difference is their name would not appear in the content.
It took years to get this to finally stop. After many years of the same trojans coming back into my inbox, I finally realized the only thing we can do is to cancel our infected email and start a new one, AND advice everyone we know to do the same.
Now I never save any contact address. My advice is to save your personal contacts email address if you must, into a word document and keep it out of cyber space.
Be safe from cyber attacks...God bless,
Shirley
I've had my share of trojans in the past where someone had opened one and it's form of infection was to send out the same message using every email address saved in my address book. I had opened one that was from a known personal friend. The only difference is their name would not appear in the content.
It took years to get this to finally stop. After many years of the same trojans coming back into my inbox, I finally realized the only thing we can do is to cancel our infected email and start a new one, AND advice everyone we know to do the same.
Now I never save any contact address. My advice is to save your personal contacts email address if you must, into a word document and keep it out of cyber space.
Be safe from cyber attacks...God bless,
Shirley