Once again I read from some of the replies here that there are still people who are accepting the fact that an email may be from someone they know and have an attachment then it is OK to open it.
DON'T.
I will reiterate here what I have been telling everyone who will take the time to read this:
Never, ever, ever, EVER, E V E R, open
ANY attachment to an email unless you have specifically requested it from someone you know. Only by sticking to that rule will you be certain that you will not get contaminated by this nasty virus.
Also,
never, ever, EVER, reply, forward or send back the email with the attachment. The address show as who it is from may and most probably will not be the person who actually sent the virus to you. The virus is not sent deliberately or knowingly but works in the background of your PC and sends them when you are logged on. You may just be sending the virus to someone who is not yet infected and thus helping to spread it instead of trying to contain it.
I am receiving over 50 of these horrible little emails with attachments, some of them over a megabyte in size, every day. To stop my internet connection slowing down when my email software tries to download my email when I first log on I do the following:
If I have been offline for more than an hour or so then before I launch my email software I launch my browser and go to
Mail2Web and from there I can log into my mail server and see all the messages waiting to be downloaded. It is very easy to spot all the ones with the virus as they are all over 100Kb in size. From the screen I can delete all the infected files and at the same time all the spam gets deleted. I do this for several accounts that I use.
Once I have deleted the messages I don't want I then launch my email software and only the mail I want is downloaded for reading.
After this, as I am often logged on for several hours it is not a major problem because my email software scans my email server for new mail every 5 minutes and a longer than normal download is not a problem as it goes on in the background. As soon as I see
ANY email with an attachment then it is automatically deleted.
So, there you have it... Don't reply or resend any of the messages you receive with attachments, whether SirCam or whatever. Definitely
DO NOT open any attachments. Just get into the habit of
DELETING the whole email as soon as you receive it. Trust me, you will not be missing anything.
Unfortunately there will always be people who do not understand all this and there will be those too stupid to heed the information and those too inquisitive to not open an attachment so we will always have to be on our guard for thse viruses. The little gob*****s who write them need to be locked up but instead they will probably be recruited by the intelligence services of various countries and be paid handsomely to disrupt the 'enemies' IT infrastructure.
Just remember:
NEVER, EVER, EVER, open
ANY attachments unless you specifically requested it. Just trash the email and get on with your life.