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by soldbygail

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Does anyone know about email time bombs. A sender's emails were sent to me over a period of time and were "taken out" of my inbox. I was told that they were email time bombs. I know they are illegal, but has my computer or email account been compromised on some way. I have the ip address of the computer that sent it too me. Yahoo and Hotmail were of no help, spent $100 on Norton help and $50 on tech help.

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by thumbsup2

.... and who took them out of your inbox?

What type of emails were these, since you said: "I know they are illegal" .... how so?

by dr dij

you ran or opened the email attachment, and they had a virus they can't be 'time bombs'.

it was true for a while if conditions were right that just opening an email with html format in outlook could autorun a prog that would infect you.

I turn off html preview in my old email. If you know so little about email that you'd fall for this you ought to get something that prevents registry changes. Like java cools spyware blaster with the tea-timer feature enabled. or nod32 antivirus or other behaviour based AV.

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