a virus question should i or shouldnt i?

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i have an email in my junkbox, from someone calling himself 'richard hamburger' hahaha yes. title is 'search'
it is 69k, and i dont know who this is.
should i let my curiosity win?
or could it be a voracious virus?

― donna (donna), Friday, 18 October 2002 21:04 (twenty-three years ago)

It is probably a virus. DELETE!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 18 October 2002 21:17 (twenty-three years ago)

delete it.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 18 October 2002 21:37 (twenty-three years ago)

if it's not a virus then it's most likely a horrid SPAM anyway. avoid.

my new mail this morning consisted of one offer for larger breats [um...] and two for a larger wang [er...] - what is the innernet trying to tell me?

― petra jane (petra jane), Friday, 18 October 2002 23:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm getting a completely crazy amount of what appear to be viruses in my hotmail account - lots of emails that come from addresses and names I sometimes recognise from ilx but that have nonsensical topics, an approx 100k file size, but they're always blank if I open them.... am I the only one this is happening to?

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 19 October 2002 00:08 (twenty-three years ago)

well i deleted dick hamburger, though i did stare at the screen for a bit before i could bring myself to do it. hopefully it wasnt someone official telling me i have inherited millions but only if i respond within 3 days etc etc.
ha.
kim i havent received blank ones, doesnt sound good.

― donna (donna), Saturday, 19 October 2002 03:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Kim: read Symantec Security Response - Klez virus - and don't for goodness sake open any of the attatched files.

― petra jane (petra jane), Saturday, 19 October 2002 03:55 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm getting loads at the moment which tells me they are undeliverable items, all with attachments called New Microsoft Word Document. I haven't opened any of them, obviously.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 19 October 2002 10:34 (twenty-three years ago)

if i get email from an ilxor that's about 130kb, i delete it immediately. especially if the subject line rings false, which it always does. so if yr gonna send me a big file, come up with a subject line that screams :"dont delete this! legitimate e-mail with large file enclosed for a good reason, not a virus!". maybe not that subject line exactly, tho.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Saturday, 19 October 2002 10:55 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, had a few virus emails lately, more and more 40k ones are turning up.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 19 October 2002 15:15 (twenty-three years ago)

five years pass...

i have an email in my junkbox, from someone calling himself 'richard hamburger' hahaha yes. title is 'search'
it is 69k, and i dont know who this is.
should i let my curiosity win?

― forksclovetofu, Sunday, 20 April 2008 17:11 (eighteen years ago)

i'm trying to imagine what would happen if someone posted a query like that on ILE now.

shit zings, probably.

― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 20 April 2008 17:14 (eighteen years ago)

also: am i the only one who hoped this might be a thread started by an evil genius wondering whether to infect a major public water supply, thus bringing a gasping, retching population to its knees and ushering in a thousand years of brutal tyranny?

yes? well, fuck you all, then.

― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 20 April 2008 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

This was taken seriously!

― forksclovetofu, Sunday, 20 April 2008 20:10 (eighteen years ago)

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