Re: Juno Customer Care virus scam?

From: Vanguardx (see_signature)
Date: 08/30/04


Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 12:29:07 -0500


"Edw. Peach" <bogus_addie@yahoo.com>
wrote in news:c776j0tfr45u9ltd9dvmntpb0pm0v2sjdh@4ax.com:
> I just got a notice from Juno Customer Care that an email I sent may
> have had a virus. I did not open the mail to read the text. The odd
> thing about this is that I haven't sent an email out to a Juno address
> in about three weeks. I scanned all my out messages for juno
> addresses. I have AV (Nortons) that is supposed to scan all my
> messages, and my email program also has that feature.
>
> Is this a scam, trying to get me to open up that message?

Can't your unmentioned e-mail client be configured to read in text-only
mode (so no web bugs will work)? If not, does you unmentioned e-mail
client let you save the message to a separate file where you could then
look at it with a text editor, like Notepad, or a hex editor?

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