Usually viruses are included in your email and they are easy to detect (for people such as me at least...) with stuff such as: Open the attached document, that's URGENT, from someone you never ever heard of ever.

This one, of course, I never heard of the sender either, but the difference here is that the "hacker" is asking you to click on a link which will download an executable (for Windows, again, won't work under my Linux box, do you have a Linux box too? That's already 99% protection against these attacks!)

Not too sure whether this was effective, but some people would most certainly fall for it. Note that I do not know whether it was a simple virus or a complex one installing 100 spyware on your computer in 10 minutes... be careful, that's the usual drill now a days.

I removed the link on the here word below. It looked something like this:

http://<some IP address>/~camelot/postcard.gif.exe

If you look closely you can see "two extensions". Really the computer sees only one: .exe, an executable for MS-Windows.

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