Be careful. I just got an email that fits this description.
If you recieve an email with just the words hi in the subject. I wouldn't take the chance of opening it right now

A computer program that is designed to replicate itself by copying itself into the other programs stored in a computer. It may be benign or have a negative effect, such as causing a program to operate incorrectly or corrupting a computer's memory.

'Mydoom' worm strikes computers Computer users are advised to update anti-virus software A malicious new computer virus spread via e-mail is clogging networks and may allow unauthorised access to personal computers, experts warn. The worm, called Mydoom or Novarg, is carried as an e-mail attachment and sends itself out to new e-mail addresses once opened by the recipient. The virus may also open a "back door" to the computer to give hackers access. "As far as I can tell right now, it's pretty much everywhere on the planet," said one anti-virus expert. Thousands of e-mails triggered by the worm were bombarding networks within hours of its discovery, warned Vincent Gullotto, vice-president of California-based Network Associates' emergency response team. 'Technical thing' Unlike many of its predecessors, Mydoom does not entice the recipient to open the attachment by promising nude pictures or personal messages. MYDOOM DETAILS From: random e-mail address To: address of the recipient Subject: random words Message body: several different mail error messages, such as: Mail transaction failed. Partial message is available Attachment (with a textfile icon): random name ending with ZIP, BAT, CMD, EXE, PIF or SCR extension When a user clicks on the attachment, the worm will start Notepad, filled with random characters and it will immediately start to spread further Instead, the e-mail carrying the virus often bears the subject "Test" or "Status". The message inside may read: "The message contains Unicode characters and has been sent as a binary attachment". "Because that sounds like a technical thing, people may be more apt to think it's legitimate," the Associated Press news agency quoted Steve Trilling of Symantec, an anti-virus company, as saying. The worm only affects computers which use Microsoft Windows. Users who delete or ignore the e-mail attachment - which usually ends .exe, .scr, .zip, .cmd or .pif - avoid damage. Symantec said the worm also appeared to contain a programme that recorded keystrokes entered on infected machines. This could allow it to collect usernames and passwords from unsuspecting users. Other companies said the virus, once fully activated, told Windows to receive instructions from another computer. However, other companies did

I got a few last week and raced to delete them.

i still get them but i am hip to it now.

I've been getting several a day. Each one has a different sender and different heading. The first one I received (last Monday I think) I actually opened, but my antivirus program alerted me...thank God!

If I dont know who a e-mail is from I usually just delete it, you can never be too careful now days. I have AOL and they sent me a e-mail saying that they are scanning all of their customers e-mails for this paticular virus, so that helps to ease my mind a bit.

even so, dont u have to dl whatever is in the email? Or is just opening the email enugh?

rdhull said:

I think you have to open the attachment. But the viruses are becoming so advanced that just opening the email might trigger it.

thanx god for computers

Phantasy said:

Yeah, I've seen alot of those emails too...
[This message was edited Sun Feb 1 14:14:05 PST 2004 by July]

July said:

Yep, me too.

still gettin a few here and there but it's mellowed out fa sheezy

You got mail


200 new messages...shit I need to check my mail more often

MostBeautifulGrlNTheWorld said:

I'm just as bad.

bkw said:

me 3