[Dixielandjazz] PayPal

[Chris Calabrese]

PayPal scams are not uncommon, although in this case it's not a PayPal scam,
it's a virus. The PayPal message is just a way to try and trick you into
opening the attachment.

Never open any attachments unless you're 100% sure you know what you're
doing. Especially dangerous are attachments that end in .pif, .src, .exe,
.com, .bat, .zip (.zip can be a legitimate file, but lately I have seen
viruses coming in this form so these should be avoided too unless, again,
you are 100% sure you know what you're doing).

Sometimes a virus will have a "double" extension to try to make it look like
a graphic file; "picture.jpg.src" would be an example. You look at the file
name and see picture.jpg so you think it's a graphic, but it actually has a
.src after it making it a file that can be run on your computer and not a
graphic.

~ Chris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Farrell" <stridepiano at tesco.net>
To: "DJML" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 11:18 AM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] PayPal


> I've now had two emails purporting to come from PayPal.com informing me
that
> my account will be closed in five days unless I register again using the
> attachment which came with the messages (the file extension is .scr).
>
> My suspicions are aroused - is this an inducement to open the attachment
> which might have horrendous consequences or are the messages genuine?
Anyone
> know?
>
> John Farrell
> http://homepages.tesco.net/~stridepiano/midifiles.htm
>
>
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