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I have gotten one private email from someone who opened one and got infected
with a virus.

DO NOT OPEN THESE EMAILS!

When malicious emails infect a computer, they immediately scan the computer for
other email addresses, copy them, and send themselves out to every email address
they find.  They usually do *NOT* use the email address of the infected computer
in the "From:" line.  They use one of the email addresses they find on the
infected computer.  That's why when you get one "from" someone you know, that
someone's computer isn't necessarily infected... unless they got the same email
with YOUR "from" eddress and opened it :(

This ability to send themselves out using email addresses other than the one on
the infected computer is called spoofing.  The virus spoofs the email address
for two reasons:
1) A lot of the computers it sends to will recognize the eddress and maybe think
the email is real and open the email and
2) It is harder to back trace to the computer that is really infected because
IT'S eddress is not in the "From:" line.

So NEVER open an email that looks even a little bit odd.  Instead, write an
email to your friend and ask if s/he sent you the email.  Or if the thing looks
really odd... just delete it.


Dolores Arste wrote:
> I've gotten these emails from two other sources other than ridecamp. 
> Different url's each time. Both other times from people I know. Not sure 
> what to do about them.
>  
> Both people have scanned their computers as have I. Nothing shows up.
>  



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