Why does it look like Ive been sent a virus by email from the ActivityWorkshop?
First of all, these virus emails fake the sender adress, so the email did not really come from the ActivityWorkshop. What probably happened is that somewhere a computer has been infected with a virus or worm, and that computer has the ActivityWorkshop email address stored on the machine, maybe on a stored web page or in an email. So when the virus or worm transmits itself by email, it picks an address from those stored on the infected machine, and that can possibly be the ActivityWorkshop address. That doesn’t mean that the ActivityWorkshop machines have a virus, or that they sent the email. Protecting yourself against such infections is straightforward: • Never download executable email attachments such as .exe, .pif, .bat or .scr, even if it appears to have been sent by someone you know and trust. Even if it’s called excel_document.pif, it’s not an Excel document. • Never download email attachments that you’re not expecting, or don’t know exactly what’s inside. • Always treat with su
