I am have received one mail in my account with an attachment W32.Blackmal.E@mm!enc and subject line: Junior Consultants for Research Project in Ignou. Is it a virus? Though I have neither downloaded nor deleted it from my mail box, but the question , how had the sender knew me as an IGNOU student, kept me in a dilemma, if I should delete the file or not. However, the yahoo virus scan reported the attachment being VIRUS. What should I do.
2006-06-21 03:03:10 · 8 answers · asked by computersir 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
Delete it without opening.
Here is the info on it - The W32.Blackmal@mm is a mass-mailing worm that uses its own SMTP engine to email itself to all the contacts in MSN Messenger, Yahoo Pager, and email addresses found in the files with the .htm or .dbx extensions. The worm uses Windows Media Player to mask its malicious intentions and attempts to delete security software and system files.
2006-06-21 03:12:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
just delete the email. The enc at the end means that is is the e-mail detection of the headers that the blackmal virus sent out. The actual payload has been stripped out by a virus scanner. The answer to you how had the sender known you? Well the mass-mailers parse address book and use the names in there to put in the to and from fields to both sebd to and fake the from address. So someone who has your e-mail address was infected. If you have AV software that is up to date and you don't open that e-mail you should be fine. If you want to take a pre-caution run your AV softwares full system scan.
2006-06-21 12:45:13 · answer #2 · answered by DC 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NEVER open attachments from people that you don't know, OR trust.
If you're using yahoo mail, you can change the HTML settings to not to open before you make the decision, which is when you open the mail, NOT when you open the attachment.
Also, to me this sounds like spam. I'm using yahoo mail, and the with the settings I'm using, it's only supposed to send mail from my contacts to my in box. However, every day, I receive 1 or 2 mail from some spammer I've never heard of.
Your last question, delete the mail, and report the sender as spam.
2006-06-21 10:14:43 · answer #3 · answered by Bacchus1234 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have u installed anit-virus on ur pc? Make sure u hv updated the latested virus definition, download the attachment and scan it. If the the result is the same as Yahoo anit-virus.
Then delete it right now. Anyway, I suggest you delete it at once.
2006-06-21 10:14:23 · answer #4 · answered by Garo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well if you would like to be infected by the virus go ahead and download it. If not then delete it, also be sure to empty your trash folder to colpletely remove it from your mailbox...
2006-06-21 10:07:43 · answer #5 · answered by thecup420 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes its a virus just delete it
2006-06-21 10:06:48 · answer #6 · answered by jchas64651 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
delete it .mm means mass mailer
2006-06-21 10:07:25 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just delete that
2006-06-21 10:41:13 · answer #8 · answered by Jubei 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋