[CLUE-Talk] Viruses from Europe

[Randy Arabie]

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My wife and I are planning a trip to Europe and we've made most of 
our reservations via the web and email.  Consequently, I've been 
passing my email address out a lot.

In the last week I've recieved 4 emails with attachments originating 
from email addresses I've never seen or heard of.  Three of them 
are from a domain in Italy that coincidently is the same domain 
where many of the Italian hotel email addresses were.  The other 
is from a Czech Republic domain...we are going to Prague, I sent 
quite a few emails to hotels in Prague looking for rooms.

These email and the accompanying attachments all meet several of 
the standard criteria for likely viruses.  I no longer have any 
Windoze machines here at home to confirm my suspicions.

I'm curious on how I received these, as I have not sent any email 
directly to the addresses in the from or reply to headers. Is there 
any benefit to me contactin the admins at the domains from whence 
these came?

I still have the messages, perhaps I could do further diagnostics?

-- 
Cheerio!

Randy

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