Following is the text of an email received overnight.
The sender is unknown to me. Could this contain a virus in the zip attachment or a porn site entrance??
“Your password was changed successfully!
++++++ User-Service: httpwww.marseille-innov.asso.fr
++++++ MailTo: postmaster@marseille-innov.asso.fr
(Attachments successfully scanned for viruses.)
Attachment 1: marseille-innov.zip (application/octet-stream)”
The links should have been deactivated! :smack:
Most likely the zip atttachment will appear to contain a file with the extension .txt, but this will actually turn out to be a file called something.txt[loads and loads of spaces].exe or similar - Winzip and other file compression utilities, when they open the zip file, may not show the fu width of the file name and you might be tempted to think the real extension is .txt
100% virus. Do not open the attachment! It’s the W32/Sober.f@MM virus.
And update your Virus defs since your AV didn’t catch it 
The ISP does a virus scan on all incoming mail and Norton AV updated a few days ago didn’t catch it.
No PW had been requestd.
As the source had never been connected to AFAIK it was dumped to oblivion.
Thanks for help with ID.
Your AV wouldn’t normally catch that – it’s a link to a page that contains the virus, not a virus itself. A good spam filter or e-mail server AV might have caught it, but there’s no virus until you click on the link.
If the question “Could this be a virus?” crosses your mind, you’re probably best off treating it as a virus and deleting it without reading.