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Question about email attachment
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Original Message
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Name: Tammy1949
Date: December 7, 2003 at 02:54:13 Pacific
Subject: Question about email attachmentOS: Windows MECPU/Ram: Pentium r 111/384 |
Comment: I'm still pretty new with using ZoneAlarm. I have the Pro version. I have it set up to monitor my email. For the first time ever, today I was notified from ZoneAlarm that it had quatantined an email. It read: Renamed email attachment click here to visit bn.com.url.exe
It said Direction:incoming, Type:MailSafe,
IP Source: 209.206.160.252.110
Rating:Medium What does it mean when it says Renamed email attachment? Is this some kind of virus or spam?
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Response Number 1
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Name: Imp
Date: December 7, 2003 at 10:57:06 Pacific
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Reply: Hello Tammy,
I am not familiar with the pro version of ZoneAlarm, but I don't understand why this program is asking you to quarantine a file attached ??? Zone Alarm is a firewall, not a anti-virus program nor anti-spyware.
Normally files attached can be checked by anti-malwares as for exemple AV Norton, if requested....
Are you sure your ZoneAlarm is not corrupted ?
tell us a little bit more about this attachment....
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Response Number 2
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Name: efabes
Date: December 7, 2003 at 11:32:20 Pacific
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Reply: According to the zone labs website, it is called Inbound MailSafe. It says it "Shields you from dangerous email attachments" and it says 47 file types. I would test it. Email yourself (from another pc) a harmless .exe file. If zone alarm blocks/renames the harmless file, you may have a problem. If not, it looks like a good feature.
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Response Number 3
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Name: Tammy1949
Date: December 7, 2003 at 11:58:11 Pacific
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Reply: That email was delivered to my outlook mail box. I actually seen it and read the body. I didn't reconize or understand what it was about. When I saw it in my Zone alarm, I decided to just delete it. So I no longer have it. You know, I have been wondering at times if Zone alarm was working. I have downloaded housecall botton, but I don't quite understand how to use it. I've been so busy trying to get my other computer running for my handicaped son that I havent had time to figured out how to use housecall. Just about every other day this week I have used Ad-ware, Spybot,SpyBlasterware, hijackthis and shredder. Although I am still not sure where or when I should use shredder. They haven't detected anything. What is the online program to test Zone alarm? I didn't post hijackthis because I think it looks like my last hijackthis post after the bad stuff was cleaned up.
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Response Number 4
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Name: wawadave
Date: December 7, 2003 at 14:48:19 Pacific
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Reply: hello
you were probly quite safe in deleteing any thing mail safe notified you of.
you could allways run a virus scan on the item mail safe found. befor deleteing next time. its saved me from being infected in the past.
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Response Number 5
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Name: Dog
Date: December 7, 2003 at 21:00:27 Pacific
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Reply: Tammy1949
If you want a couple of test sites go to grc.com or pcflank.com and test you firewall there. HTH
Dog
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Response Number 6
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Name: efabes
Date: December 8, 2003 at 07:58:22 Pacific
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Reply: I only mentioned testing the inbound mail feature because it might block email attachments that you actually want/need. It could inadvertantly change / damage legit photos, mp3's, programs that you were expecting. I was not questioning zone alarms effectiveness. I use 3.0 on one of my pc's and it works great.
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