OK. Let me try. "4". Honest question, e-mail, asking for help, I can understand it but a vanity nonetheless.
Never never never open anything from a stranger.
She might want to run her virus scan too.
Never open SPAM.
Sometimes they include nothing in there except a 1x1 pixel graphic that alerts the SPAMmer that the e-mail was opened -- and who viewed it.
I've been getting a lot of "409 scam" e-mail from the same address today.
Today is the 20th anniversary of the Union Carbide leak of 40 tons of poison gas.
I believe at least 10,000 Indians were killed and over half a million injured.
It wasn't an attack.
Mistake Number One.
Good grief.
Tell her to run a virus scan before she does anything else.
I got one that just said "Ru Paul"
Not opening that either!
What is the connection between an email saying "Bhopal" and "something in Ireland"? Also, in response to another poster, a lot of people were killed at Bhopal but not hundreds of thousands and not a half million injured. If anyone wants to post the real #'s I defer to them. I think the number killed was around 10,000 or less.
I wasn't annoyed, just wanted to know about the rest of the stuff.
Tell her not to mix methyl-isocyanate with water.
How many times do people have to tell people not to open suspicious emails.
I sure hope her PC is OK at this point but...
Did a quick search on three anti-virus sites (mcafee.com; f-secure.com; symantec.com) and didn't come up with any hits on "bhopal". For what it's worth.
BHO = Browser Helper Object
http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/bho/
BHOs are not picked up by a virus scan. She probably needs to download hijackthis and have someone competent helper select which items to remove.
Tell her that e-mail has been circulating around the internet for the past ten years.