So my anti-virus has detected a possible phishing attempt... in an email from paypal. Should I be worried?

Question

Ironically the email says "How do I know this is not a Spoof email? Spoof or ‘phishing’ emails tend to have generic greetings such as "Dear PayPal member". Emails from PayPal will always address you by your first and last name."

I'm using the open source ClamXav and the message was heuristics.phishing.email.spoofeddomain if that matters.

Answer 1

LOL, I love the level of vanity, and greed from females, so, you get an email from paypal, even though you have purchased nothing with paypal, and you open it....LOL I guess all it had to say in the title was refund huh? Greed, and Vanity, two of the devils favorite sins.

Answer 2

you need certainly one of those programmes. I replaced to Avast some months in the past, I surely have even have been given superantispyware and Malwarebytes. i latterly replaced to Comodo firewall which seems fantastic and that i glance besides up swifter. they're all unfastened for inner maximum use and that i've got had no difficulty with Viruses Trojans Hackers etc. I additionally use dwelling house windows Defender from the Microsoft web page. it rather is secure to apply 2 anti-undercover agent products yet on no account use greater suitable than one A/V because it ought to reason conflicts. you ought to run A/V and anti undercover agent weekly. wish this helps

Answer 3

Was the email addressed to 'Dear Paypal user' by any chance? the scam mails are all like that because they don't know who you are, paypal emails will always contain something that only you and they know.

Answer 4

Forward it to Paypal at-

[e-mail]

I have had quite a few over the last year, they look very authentic, but as you say, they don't address you by name.

Answer 5

It took care of it. So your good.