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03-12-2020, 03:20 PM
Today I received in an email that looked like a most-useful assemblage of current facts regarding coronavirus Q&A, things I had actually been wondering about. I've posted it below because while I don't know it's author it was exactly about the questions I have been hearing everybody asking. It is a short few paragraphs.
EDIT: I see that copy and paste doesn't actually replicate the text, not sure what that means.
My question pertains to the email file's .docx suffix, usually a red flag for me that would keep me from clicking on the link.
The appearance of the "link" that I clicked on would appear to be a Word document image showing a page with a folded corner and with the blue "W" that looks like MSoft.
Moving the cursor over this colored image changed the appearance to a box with the word "preview" something that I thought made it safe vs. actually opening or downloading a file.
What I did was left-click so as to "preview" the document, which then appeared in the little scroll window.
I later called the sender who apparently was sent an email through a known friend, but she couldn't tell me who the author was or about the file source (assuming I even asked the right questions).
Did I possibly expose my computer to any rogue malware or viruses by "previewing" this text (clicking on the "preview box" while using my Firefox browser to view my web-based-email page)?
I can say that other known safe emails I receive seem to have the same preview box for viewing any attachments.
I never really thought about whether "preview" meant anything other than "open" the file!
This is in Yahoo mail btw, so maybe someone here knows what "preview" implies(?).
I can imagine rogue hackers taking advantage of the coronavirus panic so as to plant malware on a large scale, so urging everyone to be wary right now. I would hate to see a computer virus spread that might be worse than even the coronavirus spread!
Thanks for reading.
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EDIT: I see that copy and paste doesn't actually replicate the text, not sure what that means.
My question pertains to the email file's .docx suffix, usually a red flag for me that would keep me from clicking on the link.
The appearance of the "link" that I clicked on would appear to be a Word document image showing a page with a folded corner and with the blue "W" that looks like MSoft.
Moving the cursor over this colored image changed the appearance to a box with the word "preview" something that I thought made it safe vs. actually opening or downloading a file.
What I did was left-click so as to "preview" the document, which then appeared in the little scroll window.
I later called the sender who apparently was sent an email through a known friend, but she couldn't tell me who the author was or about the file source (assuming I even asked the right questions).
Did I possibly expose my computer to any rogue malware or viruses by "previewing" this text (clicking on the "preview box" while using my Firefox browser to view my web-based-email page)?
I can say that other known safe emails I receive seem to have the same preview box for viewing any attachments.
I never really thought about whether "preview" meant anything other than "open" the file!
This is in Yahoo mail btw, so maybe someone here knows what "preview" implies(?).
I can imagine rogue hackers taking advantage of the coronavirus panic so as to plant malware on a large scale, so urging everyone to be wary right now. I would hate to see a computer virus spread that might be worse than even the coronavirus spread!
Thanks for reading.
"
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