E-mail question....

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Registered: 10-03-2004
E-mail question....
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Sun, 11-28-2004 - 1:18pm

Ok, so I checked my Yahoo e-mail at work. A friend of mine sent me a risque picture of this guy. I replied back to him, we had a laugh over it, and then I promptly deleted it.

This was 2 weeks ago.

Yesterday, in my yahoo account, was an e-mail from a co-worker (who NEVER e-mails me--he does, however, e-mail my friend) asking me to please veiw an attachment. It wouldn't open, it was just a bunch of symbols, but the file name suspiciously looked like the file name of the risque photo that was sent to me!

So, I'm freaking out here!

Again, I never saved the e-mail from my friend. I just opened it, veiwed it, replied back to him, and immediately deleted it...

Should I be calm or freaked?

Cherry

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Sun, 11-28-2004 - 2:01pm

Ok, since I don't know exactly what kind if picture this was.......well not what it looked like I can guess that,,,lol but was it one that your friend took? Probably not. One that was sent to her from someone else? The picture came from email to email down the line? And I have no idea why you clicked on to answer that......here is what happens.


Attachments can have a little program in them that gets onto your machine. Runs to your addressbook and then mails itself out to everyone in there. By sending it to your it can get on the whole network. Or just as likely he could have recieved that same email and now it is sending itself to you.


The thing is that it looks like it came from someone you know, could sometimes be that your mother or sister has opened that email and now it is in their address book too.


I don't know if there is much you can do with a web account unless you want to go through changing your user name and password. Make sure the anti virus is up to date if that is your responsibility run Adaware and Spybot Search and destroy. To get rid of any spyware.


I have said this many times but just don't open attachments. Most anything that can be sent by email can be put into the body of an email. Like a picture........and even if it is not an attachment never click on those things.


If you want to get into it then send the email to your home computer.....


Other than that with a web based email there isn't much else you can do. You can turn on the filters in Yahoo too.


 


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Mon, 11-29-2004 - 7:37am

Actually, the e-mail was a picture my friend took himself. He had a house party that got pretty wild....need I say more! LOL

SO since it was a personal picture he took and not one of those random spam like photo's, my only guess would be that he mistakenly (or puposefully?) e-mailed the other guy as well.

What do you think?

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Wed, 12-01-2004 - 12:32am
I would say that you are right and I would just delete it. Then just watch and see it will probably die down......Janet

 


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Wed, 12-01-2004 - 1:20pm

YOUR right!

I think it has. I ran into the guy and we just said hello and continued on our way.

Like I'm the only pervert that works here (NOT)!!!

LOL!

Thanks for your support!

I learned my lesson on opening attachments at work, but one more question:

When you check your Yahoo e-mail or Hotmail accounts at work, spywear or other monitoring software can't read the actual text content of your e-mails, can they? I know they can tell you been in yahoo or hotmail e-mail, but they can't read the actual text can they?

Tell me, oh Obi Wan! (AKA: emty_nstr)

Cherry

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Wed, 12-01-2004 - 2:13pm

I don't know what your company is using but I have read where some of that software can let the IT person even read the mail itself.....and if the boss is like that it is his computer........I would hope that he has better things to do.......lol......


But I think most of them just would know the URLs so they would know you had been to Yahoo or Ebay etc.


Just be careful and you should be ok. But then if they know how long you are on personal stuff .......lol.....like you were at work for 8 hours and spent 3 of that on personal...........they might frown on that too.....lol......Take care.......Janet


 


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Registered: 03-09-2001
Wed, 12-01-2004 - 5:36pm

I read an article about online privacy at work on PC World's web site. I'll post it in a separate thread...

Gypsy



Blessings,

Gypsy

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