The Bagel Virus is doing the rounds again according to the BBC. Usual indications are an email containing the subject line:
Re;
Re: Hello
Re: Hi
Re: Thank you!
Re: Thanks 😉
If it does infect your system, it will harvest the email addresses in your contacts list and send out copies of itself to them. It will also try and shut down your firewall.
If you get any of these, don’t open them and delete immediately.
Better still, defend yourself and make sure they don’t get into your in-box in the first place. Get a good anti-virus program and keep it up-to-date. I also recommend an aggressive mail filter. I Use Mailwasher pro from FireTrust. This has a number of facilities that enable you to stop damaging email and SPAM from getting onto your machine. A caveat here – it has a well advertised "bounce" facility. Turn this off as all you will be doing is bouncing the SPAM to an innocent party as the return address on SPAMs and viruses are invariably forged.
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