Hello guys.
Yesterday I received an email from an engineering company in Carlisle, with an excel file attached, and the email said it was a purchase order. I was suspicious immediately as I had never heard of the company, but the company does exist. So I left the email where it was for the time being (unopened) and tried to call the company to check if it was indeed a purchase order (which it just might have been). I couldn't get through on the phone.
I then switched to another email account and opened an email that had just arrived from a regular contact, and clicked on the photo attachment they had sent me. Somehow, there was a lag in the email program, so that as I clicked on the attachment in my "trusted" email, I noticed that the preview panel was still showing the suspicious email, and as I clicked to open the photo file that I was expecting, instead the excel file from the engineering company opened.
It was completely blank. As soon as I realised what had happened I shut it down and ran a scan with Malwarebytes and the Mcafee Live Safe that came pre-installed on my computer.
Mcafee said that it had found and removed a program it didn't like, which if I remember rightly was called either a "loader" or "installer".
Everything seems to be running fine, and I can't see any programs running that I don't recognise.
Now I am terrified to log on to anything sensitive like the bank.
Should I be worried? Is there anything else I should be doing?
Yesterday I received an email from an engineering company in Carlisle, with an excel file attached, and the email said it was a purchase order. I was suspicious immediately as I had never heard of the company, but the company does exist. So I left the email where it was for the time being (unopened) and tried to call the company to check if it was indeed a purchase order (which it just might have been). I couldn't get through on the phone.
I then switched to another email account and opened an email that had just arrived from a regular contact, and clicked on the photo attachment they had sent me. Somehow, there was a lag in the email program, so that as I clicked on the attachment in my "trusted" email, I noticed that the preview panel was still showing the suspicious email, and as I clicked to open the photo file that I was expecting, instead the excel file from the engineering company opened.
It was completely blank. As soon as I realised what had happened I shut it down and ran a scan with Malwarebytes and the Mcafee Live Safe that came pre-installed on my computer.
Mcafee said that it had found and removed a program it didn't like, which if I remember rightly was called either a "loader" or "installer".
Everything seems to be running fine, and I can't see any programs running that I don't recognise.
Now I am terrified to log on to anything sensitive like the bank.
Should I be worried? Is there anything else I should be doing?