I got this in my email today...I thought every one shoud know Yahoo is being Imped right now:?

Question

I got this email today:

Dear user ralahinn1,

It has come to our attention that your Yahoo User Profile ( x ) records are out of date. For further details see the attached document.

Thank you for using Yahoo!
The Yahoo Support Team






+++ Attachment: No Virus (Clean)
+++ Yahoo Antivirus - www.yahoo.com
guess what is is in the attatchment? its called"important_details.zip"
but when you check it out...if you don't have a good way to stop it(Im on a library computer ) what is inside is a virus called:"W32.Mytob.EV@mm", so be careful what you open...the email came from "[e-mail]"

I have gotten 4 more since then, I just delete them

Answer 1

Yahoo, along with most major companies, does not often send out attachments, especially not ones which are executables (zip can be). Don't open an attachment from them, unless you really know for sure it is legit. In this case it doesn't even make sense to use a zip attachment to show you how your profile is out of date. Maybe an html file, or a text file, but neither of those would require zip compression, and so a zip file makes no sense here, and should be discarded immediatly as malicious.

Answer 2

There is a lesson in this.
Do not, repeat DO NOT open any attachment unless it is from someone whom you trust. Sure, Yahoo is trustworthy, but check to see where it came from. Look at the format. It is suspicious.

Common sense tells me that Yahoo does not send emails of this form. You knew to yourself no records were out of date, and if so, let it be.

Curiosity killed the cat...........

Answer 3

Thank you for the warning. Good thing i have some kick butt protection on my puter lol

Answer 4

okie....dokie..

But My PC is safe even if i open it !

U wanna know....how ?


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.I run REDHAT LINUX on my laptop.. :)

Answer 5

Thanks for the warning :)

Answer 6

Thanks for the hint.