does anytone keep getting email scams with virus attatchments?

I just got this from tigersportscars.nl


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Thanks for your registration.
( We say Sorry again, the first mail was delivered to an unknown mail address.
This was a bug in our mailing system! )


The amount of 239.- USD was deducted by your account.

Welcome,
you can now visit more than 1200 very very hot web pages!
Your registration, pages and passwords are transferred in the attachment.

enjoy


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didnt know tiger did porn.

I have has several mails like this inc one welcoming me to child porn subscriptions of 200 dollars a month.

there is never any card details.

the idea is to make you think WTF and open the mail.


if you get any of these, delete them. its just crap.

atb

steve

It's for this reason that I do not have Outlook Express configured on my computer, I leave everything at my ISP and only look at the mail online. I download attachments only if I know the sender and am expecting the package.

OE won't allow you to open attachments unless you fiddle with settings, so it's not so likely you'll execute a virus downloaded in your mail.

i use thunderbird (mail client) and firebird (nice web browser) from http://www.mozilla.org because MS seem to leave a few too many holes about

A couple of them said I had been downloading illegal mp3 files and claimed to be from the FBI, list of files attached, one was saying I had reported someone as a terrorist and a solicitors letter was attached. My email is web based so they are not actually on my drive but some of them could be worrying if you were so inclined.

yours, Pete

Ran across an interesting utility the other day...

LitePC has some utilities for allowing users to uninstall as much of Windows as they like, great for off-brand browser users

http://www.litepc.com

No affiliation, etc., etc.

I hate Windows and would dump it in a flash if I could. Bloated, resource-hogging, buggy POS!

http://grc.com/stm/shootthemessenger.htm

this closes the messenger service that windows leaves open for back door access to your system.

yours, Pete.