Virus Warning! Don't Open Emails Entitled "You've received a greeting from a family member!"

December 19th, 2005 • Related • Filed Under

I just received an email entitled “You’ve received a greeting from a family member!” which contained a virus. I was suspicious from the outset, but given that it is almost Christmas I opened it with my virus scanner running at maximum, just in case it was from a friend.

I’m just putting a warning out as I bet this email or similar ones are going to be popular this week. Remember, if you don’t know the sender or an email comes through anonymously be safe, not sorry and don’t open it.

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Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University, and currently runs the Portal and online operations for one of the largest ISPs in the UK. He also writes for Windows 7 News.

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  1. #1

    Comment by air purifier on 12 February 2007:

    i got a similar message, and decided from now on, not to open any emails from those I don’t know with.

  2. #2

    Comment by NLP Master on 14 August 2007:

    Odd really…. this post was made 2005 but I still get nasty emails like this! So that means the virus is still alive!

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