judith wrote:
> Sue has raised the question in another thread :
> someone goes looking for warez software and downloads
> files named "XP-Hack.exe" but, unnknowingly are actually
> self-extracting files of kp images - guilty of creating kp images, or
> not?
>
> I have also wondered what does one do in these circumstances - a
> friend of mine said that he had received some near to the mark images
> in a spam e-mail for . - what should he do?
>
> I must admit I did not know: I told him to document exactly what had
> happened. Save all of the e-mail including headers - excluding the
> images. Outline describe what the images were in a document to be
> kept on his machine - and to delete the original. Also to send
> e-mails to a number of friends saying what had happened and "warning"
> them not to open the e-mail if they themselves received it; - not just
> as a warning but a further "documentation" of what had happened.
>
> Any views - better ideas?
Report the email to the internet watch foundation. Then delete the email
and forget about it.
That's all you can do really.
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Robbie |