[Magdalen] can't open photo attached to email...

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

You raise a very good point. We absolutely need to be vigilant about this
sort of thing, and we
re all at risk. I had a virus of some kind on my system, and had to restore
my operating system. I don't know where I got it, but I would not be
surprised if I got it from something like this.  At some time or other, all
of us, perhaps in a hurry or just not thinking, will attempt to open
something and infect our system.

I remember that someone at my hospital accidentally opened an attachment,
and soon the entire hospital network was infected. The remedy, fortunately,
was a patch applied to the system, but having to do this to every PC took
time from our IT department, and they were not pleased.

If an email looks funny, and it has an attachment, do not open it.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 11:23 AM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:

> On 11/22/16 9:21 PM, Lynn Ronkainen wrote:
>
>> I have received an email with a photo (jpg) attached - It is from a safe
>> source.  When I open the email
>> the attachment appears below the subject line and then,  below the text,
>> a small black square with
>> an X in it appears centered in the email. Can't save the jpg, can't open
>> it, can't forward it.
>>
>> What's up? Any suggestions?
>>
>
> My suggestion is that you delete it fast, then get in touch by telephone
> with the "source" that it looked like it came from and ask about it. Even
> if your "From" column said that that's where it was from, it probably
> wasn't.  I've got a plague of these, sometimes a dozen in a day, probably a
> plague because I've asked to be disconnected from my ISP filters: they were
> too unreliable, and frequently deleted real e-mails from real people
> important to me.  So I do a lot of deleting.  I think these things are
> viruses or other malware, and I know they don't come from the places that
> the "From" line says that they do: they're master spoofers.  Some of them
> say that they're from my ISP itself, about various important matters, and
> that one's very easy to check on the telephone with my helpdesk. Others say
> that they came from some person or company I never heard of. The
> attachments usually have .zip extensions, but .jpeg is very common.  The
> body of the e-mail might be blank, or might say anything, such as that I
> owe them a lot of money, and the invoice is attached, or that they're
> transferring a lot of money to me, and the papers relating to it is
> attached, or they're a tax statement that I definitely don't owe (I owe
> taxes to AUSTRALIA??!) or something.  Anything to get me to open that
> attachment: they're amazingly creative.  None of them know my name: if they
> did, they'd use it, but if there's something in the body in plain text or
> html, supposedly personal, it says "Dear polycarpa3."  It's no good trying
> to reply to them by e-mail: attempted replies just bounce or disappear.
> Since you've already tried to open it, better get someone to check you out
> for malware.
>
>
> --
> Sibyl Smirl
> I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
> mailto:polycarpa3 at ckt.net
>