What's this email

[beavereater]

I got this in my inbox today. Never seen this before...did I do something wrong, is someone wronging me!?


Attention: (My work email address)


A Disallowed attachment type was found in an Email message you sent.
This Email scanner intercepted it and stopped the entire message
reaching its destination.

The Disallowed attachment type was reported to be:

SCR files not allowed per Company security policy


Please contact your I.T support personnel with any queries regarding this
policy.


Your message was sent with the following envelope:

MAIL FROM: (My work email address)
RCPT TO: info@travelconnecxion.com

... and with the following headers:

---
MAILFROM: (My work email address)
Received: from yahoobb218130168020.bbtec.net (HELO travelconnecxion.com) (218.130.168.20)
by ns.etravel-max.com with SMTP; 10 Jul 2004 01:18:35 -0000
From: (My work email address)
To: info@travelconnecxion.com
Subject: copyright?
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 10:12:21 +0900
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0006_000051C8.00003B71"
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal

[fmctm1sw]

Either an attempt to get you to open an attachement (happens to me all the time) or you unwittingly sent a .scr file. I get viruses with that extension.

[tekkieman]

Many email servers (M$ in particular) will reject emails with most attachments (especially .src and .vbs). If you need to send attachments, zip or rar them first. If you did not send an attachment, you may have a worm or virus that is attaching it, or you may need to set your email type from html to ascii for this recipient.

[redwudz]

Big question is, did you or your address send an email at that time or did someone just use your email address? I wouldn't worry about it too much, it looks like just a automated notice sent from a ISP email bot. I had a email address of mine used to send spam to several addresses and I got a similar message. I ended up dumping the address and getting a new one to keep from getting blamed for the spam. If you get more, you may have a problem.

If you did send the email, sounds like you may have a trojan, unless you wanted to send a .scr file. They are used often for viruses.

[fmctm1sw]

I save the attachments to a floppy and run a free online web virus scanner on them. I get viruses all the time

[beavereater]

Big question is, did you or your address send an email at that time or did someone just use your email address? I wouldn't worry about it too much, it looks like just a automated notice sent from a ISP email bot. I had a email address of mine used to send spam to several addresses and I got a similar message. I ended up dumping the address and getting a new one to keep from getting blamed for the spam. If you get more, you may have a problem.

If you did send the email, sounds like you may have a trojan, unless you wanted to send a .scr file. They are used often for viruses.

I never sent any email to this account. In fact, it was Saturday when this happen (From what I can tell) and no one was at my office. Its not an address that I want to change. I bought the domain name, and have my email address on posters, business cards, adverts of all kinds...it would be a bitch if I had to change it!!

[D_Knife]

If it's a POP mailbox or something similar - change the password
but probably a spammed message to get you to open the attachment as fmctm1sw said
Happens all the time on my work account

[flaninacupboard]

yeah i get "message could not be delivered" and "click here to open message" mails all the time. spamty spam spam.

[beavereater]

yeah, but it didnt have a file attached to it...it was just that...no attachment. It said I sent mail with an attachment...but when they returned my "messege" it came with nothing...just as is...