ATT000**.htm in email?

Mosquito · #1 July 17th, 2004, 06:38 AM

In one of my email boxes im getting these attachments on every other message called ATT000 and then a 2 digit number and .htm

I havent clicked on any of them. What are they? should I be worried?

Tech12 · #2 July 17th, 2004, 06:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Mosquito

In one of my email boxes im getting these attachments on every other message called ATT000 and then a 2 digit number and .htm

I havent clicked on any of them. What are they? should I be worried?

If you can, please post the whole filename, if it contains more than one extension.

Like : whatever.htm.exe or something similar.

Also if you can post here what is written on the body of the e-mail.

Perform an updated antivirus sweep on your system.

Most of the viruses get spread via one's address book, that means that one of your friends might have a virus and it found your address somehow now it is trying to propagate.

As far as i know .htm, .html files , or hyper text markup language document, do not hold any malicious codes, however if there is more than one extension on the file, like the one that i described up, there might be a different story.

renegade600 · #3 July 17th, 2004, 01:12 PM

Delete it, do not pass go, do not open, get rid of it. HTML files can carry major problems. When you open them, any script within the file or called by the file will open and run. In other words, they can carry malicious codes.

Mosquito · #4 July 18th, 2004, 07:33 AM

Its on every other of the older emails also, ones that I know when I first got them didnt have attachments.
It also doesnt show the paperclip attachment logo next to them.
Its almost like they all just apeared one day.
some examples of the names.
ATT00056.htm
ATT00063.htm
ATT00073.htm and so on
Other info, Im on starband Internet, Using Outlook Express, Win98se and have ran the update stuff from Windows Update.

Tech12 · #5 July 18th, 2004, 08:51 AM

I did a basic search for ATT00063.htm and it gave me a page with the same filename but it had a picture on it.

ATT00063.htm

Anyway if you're reciving them regularly, i would agree with renegade600 on this one.

It would be taking a risk oppening them.

Some one can take over one's computer by embedding activex or various scripts on .htm, .html and such pages.

Mosquito · #6 July 18th, 2004, 09:27 PM

Iv deleted all the messages in my inbox that have att00 atachments things and I havent got any new mesages with the att000 things in the mail for a day or so now, so hopfuly thats the end of that. Thanks for the help =)