Thanks for the alert, John. I haven't seen anything like that on other groups I help moderate, or in my personal email accounts.

I wasn't aware of the phenomenon of trojans masquerading as pdfs. Good to know that I should be careful with even innocuous looking file-types of attachments, assuming that the rest of the message were to  look benign enough to consider clicking. On Googling for more info about these, I see that even Macs were susceptible to these a few months ago, at least

until the Mac malware was updated. -Linda

 
----- "John Thurston" wrote:

>  

>

fwiw, I just received a lone PDF attachment from someone at

> theslideprinter 'at' gmail.com
>
> This is kind of like the real email addresses used by
> DenverDigital (theslideprinter.com) who is a reputable film
> processor still delivering reliable E6 processing. The
> message made it through my many layers of virus, trojan, and
> spam protection, but I still suspect it is an exploit
> waiting to happen. I have deleted the attachment and
> contacted Denver Digital to let them know someone is using
> their name.
>
> I'm mentioning this here because Denver Digital is
> frequently mentioned and many of us do business with them.
> Keep an eye out for nasty messages. I'm hoping that it was a
> room full of monkeys at typewriters that spammed my email
> address from a source with this name rather than a more
> targeted phishing attempt.
>
> P.S.
> --
> John Thurston
> Juneau Alaska
> http://stereo.thurstons.us
>
> P.S. Submitting the file for scanning by virustotal.com
> indicates it carries "Troj/PDFEx-ET"
>

Thanks for the alert, John. I haven't seen anything like that on other groups I help moderate, or in my personal email accounts.

I wasn't aware of the phenomenon of trojans masquerading as pdfs. Good to know that I should be careful with even innocuous looking file-types of attachments, assuming that the rest of the message were to  look benign enough to consider clicking. On Googling for more info about these, I see that even Macs were susceptible to these a few months ago, at least

until the Mac malware was updated. -Linda

 
----- "John Thurston" wrote:

>  

>

fwiw, I just received a lone PDF attachment from someone at

> theslideprinter 'at' gmail.com
>
> This is kind of like the real email addresses used by
> DenverDigital (theslideprinter.com) who is a reputable film
> processor still delivering reliable E6 processing. The
> message made it through my many layers of virus, trojan, and
> spam protection, but I still suspect it is an exploit
> waiting to happen. I have deleted the attachment and
> contacted Denver Digital to let them know someone is using
> their name.
>
> I'm mentioning this here because Denver Digital is
> frequently mentioned and many of us do business with them.
> Keep an eye out for nasty messages. I'm hoping that it was a
> room full of monkeys at typewriters that spammed my email
> address from a source with this name rather than a more
> targeted phishing attempt.
>
> P.S.
> --
> John Thurston
> Juneau Alaska
> http://stereo.thurstons.us
>
> P.S. Submitting the file for scanning by virustotal.com
> indicates it carries "Troj/PDFEx-ET"
>