I recieved an email from someone it wasn't spam, as could tell by the way it was written but the email address was anonymous and the ending of the email was invalid.org, tried replying and it came back undelivered i don't understand lol.

how can anybody send an email from an account with no name and the ending of the email address being @invalid.org????

Ghost emails, easily done using the relevant software :D

how do you do these ghost email's then?

im sure many ppl will agree with this .... if u dont know the sender or if its not from a site u have subscribed to DONT OPEN IT .... maybe the last email u will ever open or it could be 1 of them things that when u reply or try to they steal all ur personal info

what kind of personal information could they get? i mean i have firewall's and antivirus and antispyware on my pc.

theres some very clever people out there , its easy for them to bypass most antivirus software ... safe bet , if u dunno sender dont even think about opening

I opened it earlier today, i think i know who has done it but i dont want them having access to my pc or anything!!

delete it then , empty junk/deleted items folder too ... then dont open no more
not even outta curiosity

you can just put reply address as @invalid.org - and thats what they will see as the sender...

they use ASCII Character 160 (Which is a blank space, but not SPACE (which is ASCII 32)) before the @ - so it looks blank..

For a true sender/server you need to look at the email headers, which most mail clients can do, but its hidden deep..

but its relativly easy to do ;)

but the best advise is still... Just delete it, dont even open it, just Right click, and delete (If you left click then delete, that opens it, and scripts hidden in the headers could penetrate your PC without you even knowing)





(P.S. im not trying to scare you.. :/ )

Realistically, most spam is simply text or HTML advertising crap.

There are some that are just obscure - for example, for the last couple of weeks SF Helpdesk has been receiving messages all containing little reviews of Harry Potter stories!

Whilst it's posisble to get a virus / trojan horse from an opened e-mail that has a script in, it usually requires you to do soemthing daft like run a program. There are some that WILL infect your PC on opening, but they're not as common as the hype will make you think.

If you keep your AV programs up to date and running, and have a decent Firewall, you'll catch most stuff. Run and adware scan on a regular basis as well.

A more usual result of opening spam containing HTML is that the HTML has a graphical 'bug' in it with a unique ID that's linked at the sender's end to your e-mail address. When the 'bug' image - which can be as small asa couple of pixels - is retrieved, that means the mail's been opened and therefore that the e-mail address is live.

When I spam that I'm concerned about, I delete the messages around it and including it so I don't have to click on the suspect package, so to say. Then if the messages deleted include one I need, I just get that one back from my deleted messages folder.

I also pack down folders and empty the deleted messages folder on a regular basis, along with emptying my PC's recycle bin.

Don't panic - most spam with weird headers and text is just really annoying, crap spam. But yes, better safe than sorry.

Joe

Originally posted by JoeP
Realistically, most spam is simply text or HTML advertising crap.

There are some that are just obscure - for example, for the last couple of weeks SF Helpdesk has been receiving messages all containing little reviews of Harry Potter stories!

Whilst it's posisble to get a virus / trojan horse from an opened e-mail that has a script in, it usually requires you to do soemthing daft like run a program. There are some that WILL infect your PC on opening, but they're not as common as the hype will make you think.

If you keep your AV programs up to date and running, and have a decent Firewall, you'll catch most stuff. Run and adware scan on a regular basis as well.

A more usual result of opening spam containing HTML is that the HTML has a graphical 'bug' in it with a unique ID that's linked at the sender's end to your e-mail address. When the 'bug' image - which can be as small asa couple of pixels - is retrieved, that means the mail's been opened and therefore that the e-mail address is live.

When I spam that I'm concerned about, I delete the messages around it and including it so I don't have to click on the suspect package, so to say. Then if the messages deleted include one I need, I just get that one back from my deleted messages folder.

I also pack down folders and empty the deleted messages folder on a regular basis, along with emptying my PC's recycle bin.


What do you mean by "pack down folders"
Don't panic - most spam with weird headers and text is just really annoying, crap spam. But yes, better safe than sorry.

Joe