email from Ron Tremper leopardgecko.com

Hi Everone,

Tonight I received an email supposedly from someone named Ron Tremper of leopardgeckos.com. The body of the email thanked me for my order and gave web addresses for leopardgeckos.com and a care shhet. I never placed such an order, so I wrote a reply email to that effect, the email was bounced back to me as non-deliverable because the return email address for Tremper was apparently bogus. Why someone would go to all the bother to send me an email like this is beyond me, hopefully not a virus, no virus like action I can detect yet. My Norton AV is up to date and hopefully will get any bugs that may have come with the email. Can you get a virus simply by looking at an email?<img src="http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='???'>?<img src="http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='???'>?

Best regards to all
except the dork that sent me the email,

Glenn Bartley
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CORRECTION the following sentence, in my original post, should have read leopardgecko.com not leopardgeckos.com (NO S).

"The body of the email thanked me for my order and gave web addresses for leopardgeckos.com...."

Does the email address start with a DOUBLE DASH (--)??? If it does...that's a pain-in-the-butt mini-virus that's been going around....I even got one from my other email address!! I sure hope I like what I bought from myself?? lol ....Neil

YES you can get a virus from just opening the email. BUT long as ya got an updated virus scan running..I wouldn't worry to much on it if I were you.
Lately there have been quite a few different virus' being passed through emails...just make sure you keep a anti-virus program up dated and running and ya shouldn't have any problems of such. Is your anti-virus program configured to also scan your emails ?

Well there is still no virus activity that has been found by my Norton Anti Virus and it is current. As far as the email address goes it was: Ron.Tremper@valueweb.net; that is it exactly as it appeared.

I checked out Mr. tremper's site, an apparently legitimate Leopard Gecko site. I noted that he lists some people who have won prizes from him consisting of leopard geckos. Maybe I won! (yeah right - if not for rotten luck I would have none at all). Oh well, I sent him an email (through a link on hos site) asking if he knew what it was all about. Hopefully he will reply and tell me I am the big winner (LOL). I only opened the email because it was specifically related to herps and I had heard Mr. tremper's name before; but now that someone said that my computer could pick up a virus just because an email was viewed, I'll be more careful. Thanks for the info.