spysoftcentral scam email

[the whistler]

I received an email today relating to an invoice from Spydoctor.com saying that £79 had been collected from my visa account. The email said that the invoice was attached, but there was no attachment to the email.

A quick internet search identified this as a 'trojan' which has been received by many people over the past few days. There is information on Spydoctors website that confirms that it is nothing to do with them.

If you receive the email, and it contains an attachement .... don't open it !!!

[Lawrenzini]

was it a .exe file by any chance?

[Stuart Wright]

Spend $37 on http://www.mailwasher.net/ - it's the best thing I ever did to combat spam and emailed viruses/trojans.

[the whistler]

Originally Posted by Lawrenzini

was it a .exe file by any chance?

I beleive it is .exe file, although for some reason my email didn't have it.

[Knyght_byte]

i dont open emails from someone i dont know at all, nevermind opening the attachments...lol....i use a web based mail at all times, never bring it on to the computer unless i need it as backup, even then i usually send it to my work email, get it washed there and then send it back...lol

[Lawrenzini]

depends on the attachment, you can open a .txt from anyone, however why would someone send you a document as an .exe. Pretty much common sense really.

[the whistler]

Originally Posted by Lawrenzini

depends on the attachment, you can open a .txt from anyone, however why would someone send you a document as an .exe. Pretty much common sense really.

Ok, but many people who use computers and the internet are not hi tech whizz kids and may not know there exe's from there txt's, so I think its worth publicising these scams.