Help i'm being attacked!

[Shep]

Its maybe not that bad, but, I just received an email, which due to a bit bad luck on my part actually made sense. I sent a email reply back to which I received no answer to, so I thought i'd connect to their website using the link supplied (i know now, i'm really stupid)

How did they do that? I'm guessing their link was'nt actually a link? I dunno? bit to clever for me.

Can you check that a link has no dual purpose before you click on it?

My antivirus sort of caught it in time but there was a couple of trojans, a virus and so on. Some of which cannot be deleted for some reason.

Has anbody got the time to recommend a few simple rules to protect dummies like me, from the little b******ds! Please keep it simple chaps

Regards Shep

I run windoze 98(first edition), norton 2002( updated every day)& I have a firewall on my billion router

 

[Davel]

Simple - if you get an e-mail from someone you don't know, don't open it.

 

[Shep]

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Simple - if you get an e-mail from someone you don't know, don't open it.

Thanks Davel?

The point was, the email made sense, and even now I might even open it.

Shep

 

[nud1e]

Shep,
in Outlook, if I receive an email from an unknown source, I right click on the sender, open Options and look through the Internet Headers which show the route to your PC. You can sometimes find suspicious address info which doesn't match the sender.

If you open 98 in Safe Mode, and run Norton, I'm told that you can remove some of the more stubborn Trojans.