Attn: Virus from "photo.net": do NOT open attachments in messages from Photo.net

2017-09-21 Thread Igor PDML-StR
Hi All, I just responded to David's e-mail, but I thought, I would have a separate message with the warning in the Subject, since there are many people here who have accounts on Photo.net I'll repeat here: I received two e-mails from photo.net this night/morning - a few hours apart. Both we

Re: Attn: Virus from "photo.net": do NOT open attachments in messages from Photo.net

2017-09-21 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Thanks, Igor. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 9:06 AM, Igor PDML-StR wrote: > > Hi All, > > I just responded to David's e-mail, but I thought, I would have a separate > message with the warning in the Subject, since there are many people her

Re: Attn: Virus from "photo.net": do NOT open attachments in messages from Photo.net

2017-09-21 Thread Richard Dell
Good advice for almost all emails ... never open an attachment unless you absolutely know it is ok, particularly .zip, .exe, .docx, .xlsx, or any of the types that can contain macros. If it is an extension that likely does not contain executable code, like .jpg or such, I'll usually save it

Re: Attn: Virus from "photo.net": do NOT open attachments in messages from Photo.net

2017-09-21 Thread Igor PDML-StR
That's correct. As for "non-executable" extensions, there is still a danger there. Thanks to Microsoft, the default setting in Windows is to masquerade the "known extensions". This is frequently used by the perpetrators: a file has two extensions, e.g. file.doc.js or file.doc.exe So, it would