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OT: GoToMeeting Invite

I just received a GoToMeeting Invite in the form of some Micro$hit garbled attachment.

Though it's text I can't decipher it.

Is there a reader for such?

Thanks! ...Jim Thompson

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| 1962 | I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

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Jim Thompson
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Is the attachment named WINMAIL.DAT perhaps? (web based) etc...

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Jeff Liebermann     jeffl@cruzio.com 
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Jeff Liebermann

Nope. ...Jim Thompson

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| 1962 | I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

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Jim Thompson

If you made an effort you could probably be even less informative.

Try providing the headers for the binary attachment that you can't read cut and pasted from the raw source of the email. The first line of the encoded stuff may also provide clues due to MS file headers.

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Regards, 
Martin Brown
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Martin Brown

SOunds like spam.

A gotomeeting invite is usually a link and a passcode, not an attachment.

Cheers

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Martin Riddle

Came from a known client... maybe he bungled it ;-) ...Jim Thompson

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| James E.Thompson                                 |    mens     | 
| Analog Innovations                               |     et      | 
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems  |    manus    | 
| San Tan Valley, AZ 85142     Skype: skypeanalog  |             | 
| Voice:(480)460-2350  Fax: Available upon request |  Brass Rat  | 
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com |    1962     | 
              
I love to cook with wine.     Sometimes I even put it in the food.
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Jim Thompson

Email can be forged and email client address books can be read by viruses. It has been more than once I have received email "from" known contacts that were in fact not emails they sent at all. They usually contain some sort of mal-ware.

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Rick
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rickman

It's safest to call the client and verify with him. Same idea with weird emails from banks, stockbrokers, etc.

Like Rick said, malware attachments are plentiful.

Michael

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mrdarrett

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