Your Wife Photos Attached
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been getting several e-mails every day with a title of “Your Wife Photos Attached” and just a zip file enclosed. My ISP marks them as spam and as I’m careful, I have never opened the zip, so they have been no threat to my computer until now.
As a widower though, who sorely misses his wife, I don’t like theses messages.
So finally curiosity got the better of me and I this morning I decided to find out what the zip files contain.
I don’t recommend doing this, but if you are careful it is a perfectly safe procedure. I copied the zip file on to an SD card and then transferred this to an old laptop, which is unconnected to the network and the Internet The laptop also has nothing of value on its hard drive, except gigabytes of nothing.
So what did the zip file contain?
Just an image containing a Russian web address, that if you typed it into your browser would give you access to cheap Viagra-type drugs. They would probably be cheap, but useless fakes.
So from a computing point of view they would appear to be safe at present!
But never take the chance of clicking on one of these zip files. Someone will start distributing ones, that are dangerous rather than just annoying!
The Anonymous Widower 
I get lots of this type of rubbish in my spam too, what is interesting is I get different types of spam in each email account. The one I use for yahoogroups and suchlike gets a lot of pharmacy ones offering me pain relieving narcotics cheaply, plus the usual viagra and porn sites. I am in a yahoo group which deals with chronic pain, and I wonder if somehow the senders of this know that, because I dont get them on the other email address, which mostly I use for internet shopping, business type stuff such as solicitor handing my aunts estate etc. I get stuff written in Russian on that one, viagara, porn sites, ones offering me large amounts of money if I send off my bank details. But hardly any offering me pain killers.
Needless to say I dont go into any of these emails, they all go into spam automatically and every now and again I open the spam folder to pull out the things which it wrongly puts in there.
Comment by Liz P | August 17, 2010 |
I was so curious about what was in that message.
Comment by Marty Murray | August 25, 2010 |
Thank you ever so for you blog article.Thanks Again. Really Cool.
Comment by Jean Brotherton | February 27, 2012 |