I have had several recently, which I cannot open. when I try they seems
to say that it has embedded macros and does nowt. I have tried download
programs for the attachment, but get a warning from my anti virus
program telling me it is suspect. The two attachments I am particularly
interest in are *.xls and *PRCL.doc.
I have contacted the senders mainly UK Mail and got not reply. any
suggestions please?

Broadback wrote:
I have had several recently, which I cannot open. when I try they seems
to say that it has embedded macros and does nowt. I have tried download
programs for the attachment, but get a warning from my anti virus
program telling me it is suspect. The two attachments I am particularly
interest in are *.xls and *PRCL.doc.
I have contacted the senders mainly UK Mail and got not reply. any
suggestions please?


Are these unsolicited emails? If so, STOP TRYING TO OPEN THEM! If not, you
may have to check the settings within excel with regard to running macros.

Sounds to me though like your anti-virus is trying to tell you something.
Listen to it!

Tim

On Friday, 4 December 2015 11:56:50 UTC, Broadback wrote:
I have had several recently, which I cannot open. when I try they seems
to say that it has embedded macros and does nowt. I have tried download
programs for the attachment, but get a warning from my anti virus
program telling me it is suspect. The two attachments I am particularly
interest in are *.xls and *PRCL.doc.
I have contacted the senders mainly UK Mail and got not reply. any
suggestions please?

Do you know who these are really from and do you really need to open them?

Otherwise delete and move on.

There are quite a few fake 'invoices' going round at the moment

Owain

On 04/12/2015 11:56, Broadback wrote:
I have had several recently, which I cannot open. when I try they seems
to say that it has embedded macros and does nowt. I have tried download
programs for the attachment, but get a warning from my anti virus
program telling me it is suspect. The two attachments I am particularly
interest in are *.xls and *PRCL.doc.
I have contacted the senders mainly UK Mail and got not reply. any
suggestions please?


This is a troll? He can't be serious, surely?

Tim+ wrote:
Broadback wrote:
I have had several recently, which I cannot open. when I try they seems
to say that it has embedded macros and does nowt. I have tried download
programs for the attachment, but get a warning from my anti virus
program telling me it is suspect. The two attachments I am particularly
interest in are *.xls and *PRCL.doc.
I have contacted the senders mainly UK Mail and got not reply. any
suggestions please?


Are these unsolicited emails? If so, STOP TRYING TO OPEN THEM! If not, you
may have to check the settings within excel with regard to running macros.

Sounds to me though like your anti-virus is trying to tell you something.
Listen to it!

Tim



Should also add that if you're in the habit of opening unsolicited
attachments, your machine is almost certainly already infected, even if
you've had messages saying that the attachment failed to open. Common
gambit to put you off the scent.

Tim

On 04/12/2015 11:56, Broadback wrote:

I have had several recently, which I cannot open. when I try they seems
to say that it has embedded macros and does nowt. I have tried download

Perhaps just as well since they are almost certainly hostile. Thank
heavens that MS Office no longer runs macros by default!

programs for the attachment, but get a warning from my anti virus
program telling me it is suspect. The two attachments I am particularly
interest in are *.xls and *PRCL.doc.

Why do you doubt the AV assessment? If you want an independent scan of a
suspect attatchement and your AV appears not to spot it as dodgy then
offering it up to virus total isn't a bad way to proceed.

https://www.virustotal.com/

If in any doubt wait 48 hours and try again.

I have contacted the senders mainly UK Mail and got not reply. any
suggestions please?

Delete unsolicited emails from unknown sources with attachments unread.
Particularly ones with Urgent in the title.

--
Regards,
Martin Brown

On Fri, 04 Dec 2015 04:10:31 -0800, spuorgelgoog wrote:

On Friday, 4 December 2015 11:56:50 UTC, Broadback wrote:
I have had several recently, which I cannot open. when I try they seems
to say that it has embedded macros and does nowt. I have tried download
programs for the attachment, but get a warning from my anti virus
program telling me it is suspect. The two attachments I am particularly
interest in are *.xls and *PRCL.doc.
I have contacted the senders mainly UK Mail and got not reply. any
suggestions please?

Do you know who these are really from and do you really need to open
them?

Otherwise delete and move on.

There are quite a few fake 'invoices' going round at the moment

Owain

Few?

Many Many Many (or Lots or ...)

:-)

Avpx

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"Broadback" wrote in message
...
I have had several recently, which I cannot open. when I try they seems to
say that it has embedded macros and does nowt. I have tried download
programs for the attachment, but get a warning from my anti virus program
telling me it is suspect. The two attachments I am particularly interest in
are *.xls and *PRCL.doc.
I have contacted the senders mainly UK Mail and got not reply. any
suggestions please?

I would ask one of the nurses for help when they come round with the
inmate's meds.
--
Dave Baker

"GB" wrote in message
...
On 04/12/2015 11:56, Broadback wrote:
I have had several recently, which I cannot open. when I try they seems
to say that it has embedded macros and does nowt. I have tried download
programs for the attachment, but get a warning from my anti virus
program telling me it is suspect. The two attachments I am particularly
interest in are *.xls and *PRCL.doc.
I have contacted the senders mainly UK Mail and got not reply. any
suggestions please?


This is a troll? He can't be serious, surely?

Sadly the stupidy of Homo Semi-sapiens in dealing with matters online seems
to know no limits. About 10 years ago a friend of mine, mid 40s, private
dentist, millionaire, academically adept and uni graduate got an email
offering a £100 Harrods voucher in exchange for the email addresses of 30
people. Now most blokes wouldn't have wanted the voucher and even the
average 7 year old would have moved on by very rapidly at such an obvious
con but numpty here, no doubt giggling and clapping his hands in glee at the
prospect of a hamper or similar cos he's gay as a Larry Grayson convention,
went immediately through his friends list, pasted 30 of the addresses,
including mine, into an email and replied to the scammers. I was thenceforth
rapidly bombarded with ginormous amounts of spam which went on for weeks.

The thought that 30 email addresses couldn't possibly be worth £100 and that
if enough people replied then Harrods would go bust had not even occured to
him. Nor had the foolishness of giving his friends email addresses out to
all and sundry. Even his best pal the Nigerian prince he's in regular
contact with about an inheritance that he didn't know about said it was a
bit of a daft thing to do. Now admittedly he was rather late to the internet
compared to those of us who've been online since the late 90s but still FFS
Chris!

IQ, qualifications, even the wisdom that ought to come with age does not
necessarily translate into even the tiniest grain of common sense for some
people.
--
Dave Baker

On 04/12/2015 13:36, Dave Baker wrote:

"Broadback" wrote in message
...
I have had several recently, which I cannot open. when I try they
seems to say that it has embedded macros and does nowt. I have tried
download programs for the attachment, but get a warning from my anti
virus program telling me it is suspect. The two attachments I am
particularly interest in are *.xls and *PRCL.doc.
I have contacted the senders mainly UK Mail and got not reply. any
suggestions please?

I would ask one of the nurses for help when they come round with the
inmate's meds.
Thanks for the replies. You are all making incorrect assumptions. If I
had fully explained the message would have been too long. I never open,
or try to open, unsolicited emails. These concern goods that I have
purchased on line. I would love to open them as I am having problems
receiving items already paid for. The UK Mail claim to have called and
we were not home, however I was in the garage with the door open and my
wife working in the kitchen, both with clear view of the drive. They
sent an email with an attachment purportedly containing how I may
collect the item. However as I cannot open it I am non the wiser. IMHO
UK Mail are pits!

Broadback wrote:
On 04/12/2015 13:36, Dave Baker wrote:

"Broadback" wrote in message
...
I have had several recently, which I cannot open. when I try they
seems to say that it has embedded macros and does nowt. I have tried
download programs for the attachment, but get a warning from my anti
virus program telling me it is suspect. The two attachments I am
particularly interest in are *.xls and *PRCL.doc.
I have contacted the senders mainly UK Mail and got not reply. any
suggestions please?

I would ask one of the nurses for help when they come round with the
inmate's meds.
Thanks for the replies. You are all making incorrect assumptions. If I
had fully explained the message would have been too long. I never open,
or try to open, unsolicited emails. These concern goods that I have
purchased on line. I would love to open them as I am having problems
receiving items already paid for. The UK Mail claim to have called and
we were not home, however I was in the garage with the door open and my
wife working in the kitchen, both with clear view of the drive. They
sent an email with an attachment purportedly containing how I may
collect the item. However as I cannot open it I am non the wiser. IMHO
UK Mail are pits!


It's possible that these are just coincidental phishing emails. Seems lots
of folk have had similar unsolicited ones purporting to be from UK Mail.

I'm forever getting emails like these. Just occasionally they do
accidentally match up with a real pending order.

Tim

On 04/12/2015 14:07, Broadback wrote:
On 04/12/2015 13:36, Dave Baker wrote:

"Broadback" wrote in message
...
I have had several recently, which I cannot open. when I try they
seems to say that it has embedded macros and does nowt. I have tried
download programs for the attachment, but get a warning from my anti
virus program telling me it is suspect. The two attachments I am
particularly interest in are *.xls and *PRCL.doc.
I have contacted the senders mainly UK Mail and got not reply. any
suggestions please?

I would ask one of the nurses for help when they come round with the
inmate's meds.
Thanks for the replies. You are all making incorrect assumptions. If I
had fully explained the message would have been too long. I never open,
or try to open, unsolicited emails. These concern goods that I have
purchased on line. I would love to open them as I am having problems

OK. So you have a problem opening office attachments. You can download
free viewers from the Mickeysoft support site or one of the free Office
clones. Neither will execute macros hostile or otherwise.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/downl...ails.aspx?id=4

TBH I can't imagine any reputable organisation sending out Office docs
with macros enabled. It invites being blocked by corporate firewalls.

receiving items already paid for. The UK Mail claim to have called and
we were not home, however I was in the garage with the door open and my
wife working in the kitchen, both with clear view of the drive. They
sent an email with an attachment purportedly containing how I may
collect the item. However as I cannot open it I am non the wiser. IMHO
UK Mail are pits!

Are you *absolutely" certain they are genuine ones and not phishing emails?

The other solution is ring them up and find out by phone.


--
Regards,
Martin Brown

On 04/12/2015 15:08, Martin Brown wrote:
On 04/12/2015 14:07, Broadback wrote:
On 04/12/2015 13:36, Dave Baker wrote:

"Broadback" wrote in message
...
I have had several recently, which I cannot open. when I try they
seems to say that it has embedded macros and does nowt. I have tried
download programs for the attachment, but get a warning from my anti
virus program telling me it is suspect. The two attachments I am
particularly interest in are *.xls and *PRCL.doc.
I have contacted the senders mainly UK Mail and got not reply. any
suggestions please?

I would ask one of the nurses for help when they come round with the
inmate's meds.
Thanks for the replies. You are all making incorrect assumptions. If I
had fully explained the message would have been too long. I never open,
or try to open, unsolicited emails. These concern goods that I have
purchased on line. I would love to open them as I am having problems

OK. So you have a problem opening office attachments. You can download
free viewers from the Mickeysoft support site or one of the free Office
clones. Neither will execute macros hostile or otherwise.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/downl...ails.aspx?id=4

TBH I can't imagine any reputable organisation sending out Office docs
with macros enabled. It invites being blocked by corporate firewalls.

receiving items already paid for. The UK Mail claim to have called and
we were not home, however I was in the garage with the door open and my
wife working in the kitchen, both with clear view of the drive. They
sent an email with an attachment purportedly containing how I may
collect the item. However as I cannot open it I am non the wiser. IMHO
UK Mail are pits!

Are you *absolutely" certain they are genuine ones and not phishing emails?

The other solution is ring them up and find out by phone.


It seems that you can only email them if you have data which I am not
able too access.

On 04/12/2015 16:26, Broadback wrote:
On 04/12/2015 15:08, Martin Brown wrote:
On 04/12/2015 14:07, Broadback wrote:
On 04/12/2015 13:36, Dave Baker wrote:

"Broadback" wrote in message
...
I have had several recently, which I cannot open. when I try they
seems to say that it has embedded macros and does nowt. I have tried
download programs for the attachment, but get a warning from my anti
virus program telling me it is suspect. The two attachments I am
particularly interest in are *.xls and *PRCL.doc.
I have contacted the senders mainly UK Mail and got not reply. any
suggestions please?

I would ask one of the nurses for help when they come round with the
inmate's meds.
Thanks for the replies. You are all making incorrect assumptions. If I
had fully explained the message would have been too long. I never open,
or try to open, unsolicited emails. These concern goods that I have
purchased on line. I would love to open them as I am having problems

OK. So you have a problem opening office attachments. You can download
free viewers from the Mickeysoft support site or one of the free Office
clones. Neither will execute macros hostile or otherwise.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/downl...ails.aspx?id=4

TBH I can't imagine any reputable organisation sending out Office docs
with macros enabled. It invites being blocked by corporate firewalls.

receiving items already paid for. The UK Mail claim to have called and
we were not home, however I was in the garage with the door open and my
wife working in the kitchen, both with clear view of the drive. They
sent an email with an attachment purportedly containing how I may
collect the item. However as I cannot open it I am non the wiser. IMHO
UK Mail are pits!

Are you *absolutely" certain they are genuine ones and not phishing
emails?

The other solution is ring them up and find out by phone.


It seems that you can only email them if you have data which I am not
able too access.


Have you looked on their website for contact details?

I don't think you've yet convinced us that these are genuine emails and
not just phishing. OK, they purport to come from UK Mail and you're
hoping to hear from UK Mail. But how *sure* are you that these emails
are anything to do with your transaction and not just scams which
coincidentally arrived at the same time? Is there anything in the
visible portion which is personal to you and which a scammer wouldn't
know? [For example, some organisations quote part of an account number
or a postcode in order to help you to be sure that they're genuine].

If you're satisfied that they *are* genuine, have you tried saving them
to your hard drive and then opening them in the appropriate application
rather than double clicking them in the email? That sometimes works.
--
Cheers,
Roger
____________
Please reply to Newsgroup. Whilst email address is valid, it is seldom
checked.

One thing I've found is that if you have quite an old version of Msoft
Office then you cannot open some of the later files from the new Offece
programs.
Having said that if you install the converter pack this should go away,
though a warning about it will be converted to a format you can work with
but any exteras in later formats might spoil the formatting of the file.
The interesting thing in your message though is that neither of the
suffixs appear to be the new file types. This points to them being bogus and
I'm not surprised the anti virus jumps on them.
If you have an old machine isolated, turn off the anti virus and export the
files to a ram stick and then play with them over on the other machine.
Chances are its cock up, but you really cannot be too careful.
Brian

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Remember, if you don't like where I post
or what I say, you don't have to
read my posts! :-)
"Broadback" wrote in message
...
I have had several recently, which I cannot open. when I try they seems to
say that it has embedded macros and does nowt. I have tried download
programs for the attachment, but get a warning from my anti virus program
telling me it is suspect. The two attachments I am particularly interest in
are *.xls and *PRCL.doc.
I have contacted the senders mainly UK Mail and got not reply. any
suggestions please?

On 04/12/2015 17:27, Brian-Gaff wrote:
One thing I've found is that if you have quite an old version of Msoft
Office then you cannot open some of the later files from the new Offece
programs.
Having said that if you install the converter pack this should go away,
though a warning about it will be converted to a format you can work with
but any exteras in later formats might spoil the formatting of the file.
The interesting thing in your message though is that neither of the
suffixs appear to be the new file types. This points to them being bogus and
I'm not surprised the anti virus jumps on them.

Good point. They are almost certainly hostile then.

If you have an old machine isolated, turn off the anti virus and export the
files to a ram stick and then play with them over on the other machine.
Chances are its cock up, but you really cannot be too careful.
Brian

That is a very bad idea for someone who can't figure out how to open
fairly basic attachments. AV disabled will allow whatever malware is
there to run unmolested and the results of that could easily end up
making the USB stick an infective vector on autorun.

OP would do well to look at: https://www.ukmail.com/need-help

--
Regards,
Martin Brown

Martin Brown wrote:
I have contacted the senders mainly UK Mail and got not reply. any
suggestions please?

Delete unsolicited emails from unknown sources with attachments unread.
Particularly ones with Urgent in the title.

Or download them and investigate them on a non-Windows box if you
really want to see what the payload is.

--
Chris Green
·

In article , Chris Hogg
scribeth thus
On Fri, 4 Dec 2015 11:56:46 +0000, Broadback
wrote:

I have had several recently, which I cannot open. when I try they seems
to say that it has embedded macros and does nowt. I have tried download
programs for the attachment, but get a warning from my anti virus
program telling me it is suspect. The two attachments I am particularly
interest in are *.xls and *PRCL.doc.
I have contacted the senders mainly UK Mail and got not reply. any
suggestions please?

The *.xls attachments are MS EXCEL (you probably knew that anyway).
Depending on your version of EXCEL and the level of security, it may
block files containing macros as they can contain viruses. To lighten
up the security, open EXCEL and go to ToolsMacrosecurity and choose
the level of security that you're happy with. Perhaps scan the files
first to check for malware.

The same process applies to MS WORD for the *PRCL.doc files (go to
ToolsMacrosecurity and choose the level of security that you want),
but there may be something nasty about PRCL.doc files in particular,
so read some of the things here to be sure you're not going to have
malware installed. http://tinyurl.com/pcvf864




If ANY file or attachment is received here from ANYONE I don't know in
the bin it goes without question.

Its a simple as that

--
Tony Sayer

On 05/12/2015 15:22, wrote:
Or download them and investigate them on a non-Windows box if you
really want to see what the payload is.

That's no guarantee (although it makes you a bit safer)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badbunny

Andy