WARNING to NTL E-mail accounts

[T88CAN]

Over the past few days i`ve had numerious E-mails from some one pretending to be NTL home Email service ,saying my Email account was being accessed by a third party and to find out more information to open the attachment on the mail, to cut a long story short i was unable to open the attachments, this afternoon i had a e-mail from this"intruder" saying my Ntl e-mail account was about to be suspended because of a security risk and was given a password(number actually) to open the attachment, any way i again couldn`t open the attachment so i decided to ring NTL support and was told the intruder is spreading a "virus" and if i did manage to open the attachment then my PC would have been affected?? what ever that ment? NTL are working on itNTL never have a attachment on any of there E-mails to there customers, so be warned if you get a authentic looking mail from NTL DELETE it they have now but some info on there home page Tony

[Nat Mc]

i've got the same problem. both with my yahoo account and my university account. iv also been getting random emails from people i dont know with attatchments. iv just been deleting them as soon as i recieve them

[matt_t16]

We've got the same problem at work but luckily the kit on the exchange server picks up and gets rid of said attachment. Its well spoofed though, using our domain etc. correctly

Matt

[TUS 373]

I had one appearing legitimate from admin@ my ISP. It contained the Beagle virus - but was instanly quarantined by Norton AV. I could not see an attachment in my Outlook inbox - but there was an invisible .pif file there.

Looks like this is happening lots at the moment.

[wedg1e]

Yep, had this one last Friday.
Every day I get some crap, sometimes with a genuine-looking sender, sometimes a load of random gibberish (so email rules can't block it, I guess). The title will be anything from 'Your invoice' to 'Information' to 'Read This Now!'. The message contents will be short, often only 2 or 3 words. There is always an attachment; sometimes it's a .zip, often a .scr.
I've noticed that I only seem to get them during the working week, which suggests someone (1 or more people out there) has a virus that forwards stuff on while they're at work.
Needless to say I delete them all without opening, but it's surely only a matter of time before I accidentally double-click one of them.
I can't work out how to set up email rules to block such a variety of senders, subjects etc.
Anyone got any ideas? Need to get down to IP address level somehow?

Ian

[warmfuzzies]

I use mailwasher, allows me to delete the emails directly from the server without downloading them, you can view the headers and so select what should be got rid of.

no affiliation etc.

www.firetrust.com.

kevin