No more viruses!

[enismirdal]

I have received 4 viruses in the last half hour. I'm sick of it.

People, if you get an e-mail from someone you don't know - or even someone you do know - with an attachment over about 15K, a mysterious title and not a proper explanation of what's in the attachment, then you look and find the attachment's a .scr .com .pif .exe or even a .zip, it's a virus. Delete it, don't bloody open it! I already own a copy of MyDoom - please stop sending me more, it's boring!

/rant mode

EDIT: Make that 9 virus mails. Grrrrrrrrrrr.

Comments

[lifes-a-dream.livejournal.com]

Yup, just got two emails with weird titles and .zip extensions. Luckily I was suspicious and deleted them. *Sigh* viruses are such a total pain.

[melime.livejournal.com]

Oh, god, I know what you mean. I can look in my inbox and just go down the list, deleting them. "That's a virus... virus, virus, virus..." How is it so hard for other people?? I mean, you get some cryptic email with a title like "Re: help!" and you know you didn't send out an email like that, especially not to this person whose email address you've never seen before. And then you open it!?? Why on earth would someone do that?

I delete anything and everything with an attatchment now-a-days, unless I know absolutely for sure that someone was sending me something via email. Some people never learn, I guess. It's the same thing my mom has to deal with at work (she's a network administrator at a school). She tells everyone to keep their virus software up-to-date, but then they call her at home and ask her if she can help fix their stupid home computers because they didn't follow her advice. *sighs* Not that I'm bitter or anything. ;)

*also switches off rant mode* How did this get turned on?

[rivendell-elf.livejournal.com]

Every time I log on my email my bulk folder is full of dodgy emails. Which are all viruses.