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amberson



Joined: 21 Jun 2006
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PostPosted: 06/21/06 - 04:00    Post subject: blank emails - what's going on? Reply with quote

Here is the problem I have and this one scares me a little. On regular basis I receive empty emails. I mean empty, meaning emails do not contain anything, just blank. The address of a sender is not familiar to me and it is not the same for every such letter. This is a very odd thing to be and I do not have a clue about what could be a purpose of such emails. I wonder if this might contain a virus of some kind. Does anyone know anything about this and how to stop it?
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faires



Joined: 21 Jun 2006
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PostPosted: 08/07/06 - 12:32    Post subject: Reply with quote


Hi. I agree this is a very strange thing. I’ve been reading about some viruses that can be transferred via email body, meaning you do not need to open an attachment. These redirect your browser to go to some malicious web site and download something harmful, rather than contain something directly harmful itself. I am not sure about this. And there is no massage body here. It is odd. I found a thread of a man who tried to make an exception rule in junk (spam) filter, not to receive empty emails, but I think this did not work well. He placed every single letter and number separately in exception rule, so to filter massages not containing any of these letters, meaning empty will be affected. You can try although this doesn’t look as a very good solution to me.
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