Help with a very strange email !! ???? @@@

spider


Joined: 03/01/2009
Posts: 5527

Message Posted:
05/08/2010 22:55

Today i received a very strange email and it has got me more than worried..First I should say that I do have spam protection but this did not go into it..I did open it but not the link that was attached..I also do not understand the language or where if might be from..please read and give me your advice..That is if you can read it ???

From---Adil ELMAJDOUB to info 9987@live.co.za



odgt svtoc pourqrzoeu posy wnwvkrbswju ngezqpz ettjlkw. I intend not to open the link, but i wish i had not opend the mail...Please if you have any advice with regards to who or what it is..and why did it not go into my spam as most do.. Thanks Spider,X

paddywack


Joined: 04/05/2009
Posts: 959

Message Posted:
05/08/2010 23:11

Delete it,and all the other iffy mail .

Maz


Joined: 29/03/2009
Posts: 1924

Message Posted:
05/08/2010 23:17

I had one as well. Deleted at once. It is NOT a known language, (well not to me) and as Paddywack says 'delete it'. There is nothing init, but trouble.

spider


Joined: 03/01/2009
Posts: 5527

Message Posted:
05/08/2010 23:21

I have deleted it but how come it did not go into the spam box..or how did it find its way to me..failing that where might it have came from...maybe such silly questions for most of you..but not me !! ))







Spider X

tracer


Joined: 02/06/2010
Posts: 442

Message Posted:
05/08/2010 23:33

http://www.robtex.com/dns/live.co.za.html

britvic



Joined: 05/09/2008
Posts: 3039

Message Posted:
05/08/2010 23:36

Hi spider, do you have an Antivirus to check your computer? If not here is a free one, the link should take you straight to the download, its AVG and very good.



Vicki



http://free.avg.com/gb-en/download-avg-anti-virus-free

britvic



Joined: 05/09/2008
Posts: 3039

Message Posted:
05/08/2010 23:38

Oh, and once its downloaded, click on 'Scan all of computer' once it has scanned it will tell you of any problem and then ask you if you want it to fix it, it really is easy.

spider


Joined: 03/01/2009
Posts: 5527

Message Posted:
05/08/2010 23:57

Hi vicki..sorry you cant be here for the bbq, shame...Yes i do have anti V..and things go into protection box..also unknown ..but with this email it did not have..safe sender or even block this sender so i could not even block them for the future.!!!!! If i took your link and downloaded that, and i have one already wont it confuse it all..why have two or three is this how it works and why could i not see block this sender..that always comes up.





Spider,X

britvic



Joined: 05/09/2008
Posts: 3039

Message Posted:
06/08/2010 00:11

Hi Maria, If you already have an Antivirus make sure that it is updated or, from now on use AVG and update at a time when you know you will be on the internet, mine automatically updates at 12 noon every day as that's usually when I am on-line. Usually when I get an email I don't recognise I send it to 'junk' (I have hotmail and googlemail) then if an email comes in from them again it goes straight to 'junk' (spam). Email me with any questions.

Shame I will miss you not-swim along



Vicki

cyprusishome


Joined: 31/03/2007
Posts: 2381

Message Posted:
06/08/2010 07:10

spider,



The simple answer to all mail, no matter how it got into INBOX, if you do not know the name - DELETE!!!!! Even if it may look interesting or possibly from someone you might know, that is how we all get conned at sometime time into opening something that will be dodgy.



Remember - DELETE all unknown.

Maz


Joined: 29/03/2009
Posts: 1924

Message Posted:
06/08/2010 11:14

Couldn't agree more CyprusisHome. Don't forget folks anyone can buy a list of e mail addresses for purposes good and/or nefarious. Your name could be on it, and voila, you get an e mail! There is just one word as to what todo, and it has been stated here several times - DELETE.

If it is a true frriend, they will send a reminder that they haven't heard back from you

Crush


Joined: 01/08/2010
Posts: 2

Message Posted:
06/08/2010 11:33

Spider,

as the others have recommended, delete any emails that look like this. Clicking the link in there will probably take you to a site that will install something dodgy on your PC, so make sure you never click anything in emails like this.



To your spam protection, it just looks like an email written in a foreign language, but because the email is written in simple text, spam protection won't be clever enough to realise it is a spam with potentially dangerous links, so that is why it didn't get automatically moved into your Spam folder.



Hope this helps,



Crush



ps. my first post - just joined the forum - villa in Catalkoy

spider


Joined: 03/01/2009
Posts: 5527

Message Posted:
06/08/2010 17:54

Crush thank you very much for putting things into simple explanation for me. and thank you all above for all your help.



Also welcome Crush to the forum and good luck. just joking they all are a nice bunch of folk. Catalkoy is not to far from our place please do try and make the BBQ Aug 16th and support at the same time as meeting other members and people who are not members its going to be a good afternoon and evening.



Spider,X