Help With suspicious emails

[OatMan]

Hi! Posting on behalf of my brother.

I want to know if we should be concerned with these suspicious email messages he has been receiveing.

He has received about a half dozen to a dozen emails spread over about a week.

The messages are all the same.

No To, or From addresses. No subject. No body text or atachements as far as can be deturmined.

I've been telling him to delete them and not to even open them, except for once he's done just that. As a prcaution he has run Panda virus scan, and I told him to download spybot, not sure if that found anything.

Anyway its very odd...

He is using a comcast POP3 email account. WinXP pro with Service pack 1 all updates. (SP2 is known to conflict with some lawyer program he uses so he has not loaded it.) Panda Platinum for Firewall and Virus protection.

any ideas?
Thanks!
OM

 

[amdskip]

I really wouldn't worry about it.

 

[fuzzynavel]

Originally posted by: amdskip
I really wouldn't worry about it.

just delete them......start worrying if the computer starts to act funny....

 

[OatMan]

Thats kinda what I figured, I only posted it to begin with because it had repeated enough that I was thinkning it might not be an isolated thing.

I guess I'll keep tabs and check in if something seems rather off.

Thanks again.

 

[mechBgon]

The other thing you might do is open Notepad, and use it to open C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC\HOSTS, and ensure that there are no entries besides 127.0.0.1 localhost (scroll down the Notepad window to make sure there aren't any hidden down out of sight).

Reason I suggest that, is that there are some phish scams that consist of an email with a malicious script that tries to modify your HOSTS file, so that the next time you try to visit www.yourbank'ssite.com, you get redirected to a fake look-alike of it and then they capture your log-in info.

 

[sourceninja]

I'm getting blank emails like that on comcast as well. I am using thunderbird.

 

[timswim78]

If you are concerned about this, use mailwasher to delete them before they are downloaded onto your computer or check your webmail before opening Thunderbird/Outlook.

 

[boomerang]

Quite the coincidence that as soon as major ISP's put spam filters in place that I suddenly start receiving lot's of spam. Comcast is the second ISP that I, personally, have had this problem with.

I also have started using the webmail provided through Comcast for this very reason. I can select an email and then the "Report as Spam" button.

Getting lots of them saying my account has been credited, concerning your recent order and lots of them trying to sell me sfotware. If these morons could spell they might have half a chance.

 

[sourceninja]

I dont get any spam except these blank emails. But then again I only use my comcast email account to receive emails from comcast. I have my own domain that I use for stuff online. I make a email account like newegg@mydomain.com and use it for my newegg account, etc, so if I start getting spam, I know which email forward to cancel. Of course I also have my gmail that I use for sites i trust a little more.

 

[corkyg]

Common sense prevails - delete all emails from any source you do not know or recognize. And, especially emails from yourself that you know you did not send.