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I've received an email from someone I don't trust at all. It had no message just a link to a websiteh t t p://hoteldwarkaresidency.com/kmbre.php?nbg=dklmdb
it goes to a page that says youve been sent here by a friend or something similar and then anti virus stopped it going further.
The email was not sent to a huge list of people from the senders inbox, it was only sent to me and a very close friend of the sender (who used to build computers and knows a great deal about them).
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Is it likely this email was sent on purpose? Is there anyway I can prove this? What was the likely aim of a virus like this - to hack my email or just crash my whole computer?I Want A Virus Download
Edit: Link to deceptive website deactivated to prevent anyone from inadvertently getting infected. Please do not visit that site without adequate malware protection enabled.~ Animal