Spam email, they get more tricky

like support from microsoft

[taskmaster]

I allways get spam email everyday, but I use yahoo for the most and it is a great place to have a email, because it split up the real email and spam pretty good.

Here the last 2 days I get spam email [e-mail], but how can they do that I dont think its from Microsoft, but they use the name. I have not open it and I will not, because I never open email from spammers.

zeus

[jatar_k]

some other having problems with the same thing here
[webmasterworld.com...]

[txbakers]

That [e-mail] is a VIRUS. It came through in an email today from a friend:

SAN FRANCISCO, California (Reuters) -- A new computer worm that disguises
itself as an e-mail from Microsoft Corp. is spreading, computer security
firms warned on Monday.

The e-mail containing the worm, dubbed Palyh or Mankx, appears to come from
support+microsoft.com, but is not from the software company.

When the attachment is opened, the worm copies itself to the Windows
folder, scoops up e-mail addresses from the hard disk and starts sending
itself out, said U.K-based
Sophos.

The malicious program can spread itself to other Windows machines on a
local area network, anti-virus vendors said.

It also can secretly install spyware programs, according to Moscow-based
Kaspersky Labs in a news release.

However, Christ Belthoff, a senior product manager at Sophos, said his firm
has found no evidence that it installs spyware, or a program that
eavesdrops on computer
users.

"This is not a widespread outbreak," he added.

The worm is programmed to expire automatically on May 30, according to
Symantec Corp.

It began spreading on Saturday and has apparently infected computers in 69
countries, according to MessageLabs.

A Microsoft spokesman said the company never sends out unsolicited mass
e-mails with attachments.

A reply-to name can be anything you want, it's the headers that will tip you off.