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[ProblemAgain]

Don't open that bikini screensaver email! Not even the Italian one

A harmful Trojan horse is invading inboxes via a holiday greeting that claims to contain photographs of women in sexy swimwear. 

"Hello my dear!!! How are you?" reads an email that purportedly comes from a woman named Yoko. "As I promised here's my bikini photos. I hope you will be love it! This is my humble gift for Christmas! See you later :)," Instead of Yoko though, the sender signs off with a different name. "Your love, Ciara." 

Attached, victims will find a .zip file that contains what appears to be a bikini screen saver labeled as Bikini.scr, which "contains a variety of encrypted strings," Sophos' Naked Security blog reported. 

Sophos Labs also came across an Italian-language version of the same scam. [Trojans: What They Are and How to Avoid Them]

Emails from strangers should always be treated with skepticism. Never download an attachment from someone you don't know. 

And remember, computers can become infected via trusted services. You can almost never be 100 percent certain who you're dealing with online.

[frenchy]

and don't forget to mention the email you get from someone you know that has no type at all in the body .. just a come on in the subject line with an attachment and no rhyme or reason for you to click on it .. i mean come on why did they send you this ?/ and why wouldn't they at least send you a couple of lines about why they think it might interest you and why they sent it to you .. think about it before you open it .. i know you're curious .. but thats exactly what they're countin on.. trust me its not anything you wanna see .. skip it and save yourself all the weepin and wailin and knashin of teeth ..   

[Willy]

Oh ya, I have received mail from friends with nothing but a link in the body. No way do I touch those either. I write them back telling them that and when they reply to me to make sure they say something that I recognize. People do get hacked and the hacker uses their mail to send a nasty.

[Willy]

I cannot imagine why I would ever want to open anything from someone I don't even know but I guess people do.

These days though, you can pick up a nasty even from legitimate web pages, I think.