Dodgy Looking Emails

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baggieb
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Dodgy Looking Emails

Post by baggieb »

Has anyone else recieved any emails with PDF attachments lately?
Had about six today at home and a couple at work the attachments have names like "magazine.pdf" or "paid.pdf"
I know they are probably viruses or some other type of nasty just wondered if anyone knew what they were.
dean1234
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Re: Dodgy Looking Emails

Post by dean1234 »

if you dont no the person who sent it, best to delete them without opening the email or better yet mark them as spam .
they are more to be a virus or other nasty as you said.
dean1234
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Re: Dodgy Looking Emails

Post by dean1234 »

whooops little mistake should read .

they are more likey to be a virus or other nasty as you said.
Guilbert
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Re: Dodgy Looking Emails

Post by Guilbert »

I got a couple the other day.

Had a look at one of the pdfs and it was an advert for some shares to buy.

Remember the e-mails you got with a small "image" in the middle advertising something ?

Well these seem to replace it (or maybe are AS WELL as them).

I gather advertising e-mails with small images in them were not being picked up by spam filters, but maybe the spam filters found out how to filter them out and these have replaced them.
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