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What should I do with the following attachment?
Old 12-18-2006, 06:33 AM What should I do with the following attachment?
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dear Forum,

I have very little experience as a webmaster and really need to know what I should do with the following.

I have just received a message on my site from someone I sort of know. The message is a hotmail and it contains various parts such as:

price18-Dec-2006.zip [application/octet-stream
and the same one as a link.

and an "unnamed" file, too

Everything is completely unrelated to my site.

What do you think? What is it?

Thanks for any feedback.

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Old 12-18-2006, 07:40 PM Re: What should I do with the following attachment?
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Personally, I delete any suspicious file without opening it. If the file is important, the person sending it should have enough sense to give it a logical name.
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Old 12-20-2006, 05:20 AM Re: What should I do with the following attachment?
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I never download attachments from people I don't know or don't trust. I hardly even look at email from unknown sources
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Old 12-20-2006, 09:30 AM Re: What should I do with the following attachment?
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Do you know the person the email is from? If not delete it.
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Old 12-20-2006, 10:40 AM Re: What should I do with the following attachment?
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Have you got AVG Free? http://free.grisoft.com

It will tell you in most cases if the attachment is a virus upfront as you receive it in your email.

In this case, though, I'd just delete it. You don't know what it is, you weren't expecting it, so kill it.
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