New Posts For Thread: WARNING : Deadly email !!!!!!https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/28657103/warning-deadly-emailI opened an email which was not seen as spam on my security. The email Heading is : NY Parking ticket followed by a number.DO NOT OPEN THIS. My hard drive has crashed . Please be aware.Theoretically you could if it was a poor or insecure client or perhaps html using using some html renderer exploit? (I've seen a IE exploit download a virus before). I make sure email downloads sod all unless I REALLY want to see it and tell it to.Buhttps://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/28657103/warning-deadly-email?post_id=512454675#512454675Theoretically you could if it was a poor or insecure client or perhaps html using using some html renderer exploit? (I've seen a IE exploit download a virus before). I make sure email downloads sod all unless I REALLY want to see it and tell it to.BuFri, 11 Nov 2011 11:15:16 -0600You can't get a virus reading emails. If you read the attachment, im sorry, but its kind of a darwinean thing. A million years ago youve have been eaten by a sabre tooth tiger so think yourself lucky life has changed.https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/28657103/warning-deadly-email?post_id=512426845#512426845You can't get a virus reading emails. If you read the attachment, im sorry, but its kind of a darwinean thing. A million years ago youve have been eaten by a sabre tooth tiger so think yourself lucky life has changed.Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:14:46 -0600Also spam is not harmful, just annoying, viruses are destructive and spyware can result in theft of privacy and or money, or identity.The overheating you describe is caused by the hard drive constantly spinning, the ram and processor also working ovehttps://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/28657103/warning-deadly-email?post_id=512390177#512390177Also spam is not harmful, just annoying, viruses are destructive and spyware can result in theft of privacy and or money, or identity.The overheating you describe is caused by the hard drive constantly spinning, the ram and processor also working oveThu, 10 Nov 2011 01:31:23 -0600Forgot to tell you to change all email passwords as well.https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/28657103/warning-deadly-email?post_id=512390125#512390125Forgot to tell you to change all email passwords as well.Thu, 10 Nov 2011 01:26:44 -0600Oh dear, please listen and listen carefully.NEVER open any attachment or any email, you are not expecting.Parking tickets are never sent via email and I'm assuming you don't live in New York, so why would you open it?When it comes to emails, curiosithttps://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/28657103/warning-deadly-email?post_id=512390107#512390107Oh dear, please listen and listen carefully.NEVER open any attachment or any email, you are not expecting.Parking tickets are never sent via email and I'm assuming you don't live in New York, so why would you open it?When it comes to emails, curiositThu, 10 Nov 2011 01:25:05 -0600Look up the word 'too' in the dictionary please.https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/28657103/warning-deadly-email?post_id=512387791#512387791Look up the word 'too' in the dictionary please.Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:51:45 -0600I got one of those new york parking ticket emails and it was perfectly safe, mind you I never opened the attachment, let me just have a look a it one moment.....@:£"""£56566" (BOOOOOM) ""£7(%^%$$"£12 Holy smoke, dont open the attachment, a new yhttps://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/28657103/warning-deadly-email?post_id=512380417#512380417I got one of those new york parking ticket emails and it was perfectly safe, mind you I never opened the attachment, let me just have a look a it one moment.....@:£"""£56566" (BOOOOOM) ""£7(%^%$$"£12 Holy smoke, dont open the attachment, a new yWed, 09 Nov 2011 18:46:43 -0600I got the same email but deleted it without opening it, i notice there was an attachment, did you open that? Or did it crash as soon as you looked at the email?https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/28657103/warning-deadly-email?post_id=512101827#512101827I got the same email but deleted it without opening it, i notice there was an attachment, did you open that? Or did it crash as soon as you looked at the email?Thu, 03 Nov 2011 18:46:15 -0500do you live in NY? do you drive?https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/28657103/warning-deadly-email?post_id=512088621#512088621do you live in NY? do you drive?Thu, 03 Nov 2011 14:16:20 -0500Alive , yes. Cant beleive this was not detected as spam. Laptop getting all sorts of overheating warnings. Hope no one else is affected.https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/28657103/warning-deadly-email?post_id=512067447#512067447Alive , yes. Cant beleive this was not detected as spam. Laptop getting all sorts of overheating warnings. Hope no one else is affected.Thu, 03 Nov 2011 05:20:27 -0500