what is this??

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MZB

Lately I've been getting these strange emails. The FROM lists a single first
name.

There is nothing in the body of the email but there is an attachment,
usually with the name E-mail.pdf or document.pdf.

I delete the emails.

Just curious what type of malware this is.

Mel
 
MZB said:
Lately I've been getting these strange emails. The FROM lists a single
first name.

There is nothing in the body of the email but there is an attachment,
usually with the name E-mail.pdf or document.pdf.

I delete the emails.

Just curious what type of malware this is.
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The kind that's going to compromise the machine.
 
MZB said:
Lately I've been getting these strange emails. The FROM lists a single
first name. There is nothing in the body of the email but there is an
attachment, usually with the name E-mail.pdf or document.pdf.

I delete the emails.
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Probably a good idea.
Just curious what type of malware this is.
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It is spam. The spammers, in an effort to get around the latest
filtering tactics, have now resorted to placing their spam message in a
PDF file. Open one if you care to. You remember just recently, their
spam message was contained in a graphic file, such as a .jpeg. Well,
they've advanced a bit now to PDF files.

I have examined a number of the files, and there was no malware present,
only the spammers' messages about the latest stock deal or penis
enhancements.
 
I have examined a number of the files, and there was no malware present,
only the spammers' messages about the latest stock deal or penis
enhancements.
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And there is no growth with any of it. :)
 
From: "MZB" <[email protected]>

| Lately I've been getting these strange emails. The FROM lists a single first
| name.
|
| There is nothing in the body of the email but there is an attachment,
| usually with the name E-mail.pdf or document.pdf.
|
| I delete the emails.
|
| Just curious what type of malware this is.
|
| Mel
|

Not malware -- spam !
 
If you knew how to view the full header, you could either post it here
(with appropriate munging) or learn how to perform a forensic analysis
on e-mail.

You'll never know unless or until you extract the attachment from the
e-mail and submit it to one or more on-line file-scanning websites,
such as www.virustotal.com.
 
Mr. Arnold said:
Is there some reason you're bottom posting me? I thought those
days were over.
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I was replying to you in an "in-line" format, where responses to
specific points are placed in-line for better readability.

Top-posting has, unfortunately, become seen as "normal" for many
people, mainly due to the influence of Microsoft and how their e-mail
clients format replies.

Bottom posting follows the western style of document and page format
(reading from top to bottom). I recommend you read this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style

and encourage you to become a "bottom-poster", which was the
predominant posting style for usenet before Microsoft's influence
began to be felt, and people with less experience or history with
usenet began to use it.
 
I was replying to you in an "in-line" format, where responses to
specific points are placed in-line for better readability.

Top-posting has, unfortunately, become seen as "normal" for many
people, mainly due to the influence of Microsoft and how their e-mail
clients format replies.

Bottom posting follows the western style of document and page format
(reading from top to bottom). I recommend you read this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style

and encourage you to become a "bottom-poster", which was the
predominant posting style for usenet before Microsoft's influence
began to be felt, and people with less experience or history with
usenet began to use it.
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Bottom posting (replying) is proper when you are responding in public,
as well as snipping parts that are not needed. In line replies are great
too. Top posting is only good for non-public communications where the
small group of people are expected to already know the ENTIRE thread.

Bottom posting with Snipping is and will be proper for PUBLIC
communications with unknown groups of people (like this group).

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3rd link shows what he's exposed to children (the link I've include does
not directly display his filth). You can find the same information by
googling for 'PCBUTTS1' and 'exposed to kids'.
 
OE will bottom post if you tell it too. I choose not to simply because I
don't want to read/scroll thru all the crap again that I just read not 2
seconds ago. This is Usenet not a book.

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Virus Guy said:
I was replying to you in an "in-line" format, where responses to
specific points are placed in-line for better readability.
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I prefer that you post to the OP. I have no need to read your response,
which bottom posting forces me to do so. If everyone was to start bottom
posting, then it would be a nightmare, IMO.
 
pcbutts1 said:
OE will bottom post if you tell it too. I choose not to simply because I
don't want to read/scroll thru all the crap again that I just read not 2
seconds ago. This is Usenet not a book.
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And Usenet was founded with the idea that people share a message at
different points in time and that to do so you read it from top to
bottom, left to right, just like a book.

More of your unethical, all for me, BS.

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Leythos - (e-mail address removed) (remove 999 to email me)

Learn more about PCBUTTS1 and his antics and ethic and his perversion
with Porn and Filth. Just take a look at some of the FILTH he's created
and put on his website: http://www.webservertalk.com/message1907860.html
3rd link shows what he's exposed to children (the link I've include does
not directly display his filth). You can find the same information by
googling for 'PCBUTTS1' and 'exposed to kids'.
 
Mr. Arnold said:
I prefer that you post to the OP. I have no need to read your
response, which bottom posting forces me to do so.
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So if I top-posted, you wouldn't read my response, but for some reason
you're forced to read it if it's bottom-posted? Yea, that makes a lot
of sense.
If everyone was to start bottom posting, then it would be a
nightmare, IMO.
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Top posters are lame, and lazy because they typically don't edit or
trim the previous quoted material.

Sadly, there are far too many botton posters that include entire pages
of a previous post, only to add a single-line reply. That's lazy too.
 
pcbutts1 said:
OE will bottom post if you tell it too.
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OE will post at wherever you move the cursor to after choosing Reply To.
You don't have to "tell" it anything.

Most astute people do that before careful trimming and beginning to type
a reply.
 
Mr. Arnold said:
I prefer that you post to the OP. I have no need to read your response,
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Virus guy uses the convention that I prefer, leave just enough of the
post being responded to in order to allow the reader to know what is
being responded to.

Try reading a post at the end of a long discussion with no one snipping
anything and word wrap producing false "responses", and several
different news readers treating posts differently and you will see what
I mean. Then there's the nonsequiturs that get thrown in -- Well, I'm
not going to spend a half hour trying to figure out if a comment is
relevant.
 
Virus Guy said:
So if I top-posted, you wouldn't read my response, but for some reason
you're forced to read it if it's bottom-posted? Yea, that makes a lot
of sense.
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You got that right. I wouldn't read your response.
Top posters are lame, and lazy because they typically don't edit or
trim the previous quoted material.

Sadly, there are far too many botton posters that include entire pages
of a previous post, only to add a single-line reply. That's lazy too.
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Sorry, you just post to the OP. I don't want to see you, but I got nothing
against you.
 
Offbreed said:
Virus guy uses the convention that I prefer, leave just enough of the post
being responded to in order to allow the reader to know what is being
responded to.

Try reading a post at the end of a long discussion with no one snipping
anything and word wrap producing false "responses", and several different
news readers treating posts differently and you will see what I mean. Then
there's the nonsequiturs that get thrown in -- Well, I'm not going to
spend a half hour trying to figure out if a comment is relevant.
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I don't go into a thread reading a bunch of posts. I got two maybe three
people if they are posting that may be saying something of interest in a
thread that I'll even read. Other than that, I post to the OP and respond
directly to the OP or to someone that has posted to me.
 
Virus Guy said:
I was replying to you in an "in-line" format, where responses to
specific points are placed in-line for better readability.
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The problem with your post was that you replied to Mr Arnold but what
you attributed to him was not his text. You quoted none of his text,
so you should have replied directly to the OP's message.
 
Ant said:
The problem with your post was that you replied to Mr Arnold but what
you attributed to him was not his text. You quoted none of his text,
so you should have replied directly to the OP's message.
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Correct! Had he done that, I wouldn't have said a word, and I would have
just ignored him. He made it look like he was responding to me, and I was
saying it. Someone needs to teach the *boy* proper bottom posting. :)
 
Are you saying that you click on the last post in a thread then get pissed
because it's hard to follow? Try clicking on the first post in a thread and
work your way down, sort then by date. I you are missing some then get a new
Usenet provider.



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H. Lipman, Max M Wachtell III aka What's in a Name?, Fitz,
Rhonda Lea Kirk, Meat Plow, F Kwatu F, George Orwell
 
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