A weird thing I got in my site e-mail- Anyone wanna help me out?

[belladonna]

I just got a message titled "Just wanted to say hi- Haha" in my site e-mail. Having just been hacked, you can understand why I don't want to open this. I'm drawing a blank on how you scan for viruses in Yahoo e-mail without opening the e-mail. Yes, my brain IS fried. Anyone remember how to do this?

[trotsky]

1. Yaho scans for viruses automatically.

But if you don't trust it, just delete it. Better not to take the risk.

[Amich]

2. I would just delete it seeing as how it has haha at the end.

[belladonna]

4. Yeah, I got rid of it

It had an attachment and I don't trust Yahoo THAT much.

[McKenzie]

3. it should have been screened by the Yahoo software

if you have your own PC and are only using the Yahoo a/c for convenience, anonymity or some other reason, you could try setting the Yahoo a/c to bounce forward to your desktop e-mail client. That way, your own AV software should act as a second line of defence. In effect, the e-mail passes through two screening processes.

It is advisable to configure your terrestrial e-mail client so .html is disabled BTW. Some virii exploit the use of .html in e-mail client proggies.

[4morewars]

5. Probably a Trojan

"Trojan.Myet is a Trojan Horse that makes changes to the computer settings in the registry. The existence of the file haha.exe is an indication of a possible infection. This Trojan does not have a damaging payload."

More info here:

http://search.symantec.com/custom/us/query.html

[gollygee]

6. Wow, you're having a lot of problems

A hacker and a virus sent to you? That's too bad. I don't understand people who do things like that.