Oct 15 2009
How To Identify A Virus Infected E-mail Message?
It is often difficult to identify an infected e-mail message. The way modern viruses and mass mailing internet worms function, messages can seem to arrive from friends or colleagues. In reality most infected messages are being automatically sent by another infected machine who has no idea their machine even has a problem. Since the virus or worm pretend to be the owner of the infected it can be hard for you when you get unexpected email messages from them. E-mail messages from people you don’t know (including and especially SPAM). These are usually the culprits that put a virus on your computer.
E-mail messages from friends or that you were not expecting (especially if they contain attachments). It is possible that these may not be from people you know, but may actually be spam messages. Attachments in an email with subject lines that seem inappropriate or strange, even if it’s from someone you know. You should NEVER EVER launch an attachment that ends with an .exe, .pif, .com, .bat, or .scr extension until you have scanned it with up-to-date virus scanner. Even files ending with .doc, and .xls (word and excel documents) can carry macro viruses and should be scanned.
It does not matter if you completely 100% trust the person it came from. SCAN IT. Never open SPAM email. Spam email is too easy to copy and use to send a nasty virus. If you do get a virus on your computer, you don’t have to panic. If a virus is active in the memory, the anti-virus software may not be able to detect it. If you really want to make sure your computer doesn’t have a virus, turn it off and reboot it using a disk that you know doesn’t contain any virus such as your antivirus software’s recovery disk.
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