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Old May 13th, 2010, 05:46 PM posted to microsoft.public.access.gettingstarted
Dirk Goldgar
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Default email attachment ATTOOOO1(0.3KB) & hey you.mht(1.3KB)

"CindyO" wrote in message
...
not a computer wizard, Can anyone tell me what these are? I got it in a
returned email notification failure from who i sent an email to. I don't
know
if they contain a virus or what, but i can't and don't wanna open them
until
i know if they might be a virus . but i do know my email to this person
came
back as a failure.



If you have an attachment named "hey you.mht", it may very well be a virus,
especially if it came in an e-mail bounce message and you didn't send a
message titled "hey you". It may be innocuous, but I would be very
suspicious and *not* open the attachment, nor view the e-mail in HTML
format.

Attachments of the form "ATT#####.htm" are usually the HTML-format version
of a message. You see this as an attachment when you view the message in
plain text. It isn't normally anything to worry about. However, in a
message that is already fishy, I wouldn't take any chances.

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Dirk Goldgar, MS Access MVP
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