I just received a suspicious email as follows:
Subject: I can ruin your life. I have infected your device 8 months ago with a tr...
and then it cuts off. I did not open the email.
It sounds like a phishing attempt but could this be real?
Using Win 10 Home and Windows Defender.
Last edited by Brink; 14 May 2019 at 12:50. Reason: removed email address
Thank you. It looked to be phishing but not used to the "I'm going to ruin your life" subject. A bit nastier than click here to login to your bank account.
I ran a full scan and an offline scan with Windows Defender and everything is clear.
I get those too. Do they have like a confirmation string in the email? They sometimes accuse me of gonig to certain sites but then cite the wrong email that I never use to sign up with so I know its fake.
It you want a second opinion, you can install something like Malwarebytes or Hitman Pro free version and run a scan
Thanks for the rep.
A Malwarebytes scan was clean as was TDSSKiller. Thanks again.
Sadly, I also get these pathetic emails.
Often start out with things like "you've been hacked" before getting more aggressive with what you received.
I always delete them immediately and run a quick scan just to make sure.
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