How can I check if an e mail is one that ive been waiting for?

Question

I recently had quite a few viruses , through no fault of my own, I have been waiting for a family member to send me old photographs, I do not know the e mail address, I have my settings on full headers. I have just recieved an email with an attachment , the size is 326k. The name on subject, is two words which are names, when i hold my mouse over the top of sender and subject , I get the text underneath that i cant understand, Im scared to delete it because they might be the pics of my late dad, I havnt a contact to ask my cousin (sender)help

Answer 1

Umm... the sender should be the name of whoever is sending you the e-mail unless they signed up with a fake name?! And the subject should say 'heres those old pics you wanted' or something that makes sense, not 'try this free viagra'. I would think it should be pretty obvious if its the e-mail you want or not to anybody with some common sense.

Answer 2

Pictures 326K sounds data enough for only one good picture, usually good pictures that come from digital machines occupy more then 400k , so either you have lots of small pictures or you just have one good picture



As for viruses, i can give you a very usefull advise... the last 3 letters of a file name (so the 3 letters after the last dot) attachments is what determines the file risk



so, if you have .exe or .com or.vbs delete them immediately

if it's jpg or bmp or gif have no worrys because the file algorithms do not allow any space for viruses



however, with services like GMAIL never let you run files when you click them right away, so you can always download viruses into your computer but you will NEVER be infected if you don't run those programs





I recommend you to join GMail www.gmail.com i can sen you an invitation just say you want one in additional details, you will have your needs brought to you upon your face i tell you, i love it



they also give you header previews each mail, spam filters are great, messages are kept in context and virus support is even greater when you have attachments, you can't download them before Gmail know it's free of virus!



hope this helps





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Answer 3

If you use an email such a yahoo-- then you can see that the attachment has been scanned for viruses. If not, I will assume that after ur problems you have SOME type of antivirus on ur machine-- okay then -- just hover over said attachment and then right click on it --- hopefully one of the options there will be to scan this file with ur virus program -- if not -- then get avira that is free and can be had by typing "free-av" into ur search engine -- and THAT one will let you scan an attachment by the method I discussed-- hope this helps.

Answer 4

I would suggest you get an email account that runs of a POP3 server or IMAP such as the ones offered by One and One. That way, you can check your email on the server before attempting to download to your computer. Of course, anti virus software is a must, but make sure you keep it up to date on a daily basis.

Answer 5

FIRST OFF IF YOU HAVE A VALID WORKING ANTI-VIRUS PROGRAM FOR YOUR CPU (COMPUTER)



IE: NORTON ANTI-VIRUS. WORKS GREAT

(ABOUT 50 BUCKS)



CAUSE THE MINUTE I TRY 2 DOWNLOAD IT IT WIL POP UP A WINDOW THAT STATED " THIS IS A POTENTIAL VIRUS DO YOU WANT TO CONTUNE"

IF THAT EMAIL OR SONG WHATEVER HAS A POTENTIAL VIRUS IT WILL NOTIFY YOU.



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