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Is this a virus, or maybe just spam?

This link was sent to me -supposedly - by a friend, and I have no clue what it is, and do not plan to click the link, unless I'm sure it's no going to hurt my computer. Thanks!

ftp://hrmsunix:Hrms98000@webtest.hrmsconsulting.com:21/rxpresspharmacyonline.htm

Update:

dmu3 - I had no idea what this link was. If it were some kind of virus or advertisement.

This is, after all, called Yahoo ANSWERS.

Thanks to everyone else.

Update 2:

Sly_Old_Mole - very helpful links.

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  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Definitely spam, delete it. It would attempt to log into an ftp site using a username and password (the bit before the @ is the username:password), and open a web page from it called xpresspharmacyonline (which will then infect your machine).

    I'd also get your friend to run a full virus scan on their machine, You might be best to do one too, as the email could be spoofed from your machine.

  • Woody
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    Could be spam and a virus could be waiting at the link for you.

    I would not click it either. All I can say is it's a FTP site.

    You are safest to delete it.

  • 1 decade ago

    You're a good answerer 53% and posting that kind of links here I think is not appropriate you can either research it by yourself then a warning is better not to click the above link.Your friend send it for what purpose,anyway he's your friend why ask us if if if.......

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  • 1 decade ago

    This is a Reported Attack Site (Firefox/Google). Please do not click on this link as it may contain malware, viruses, spyware and other sorts of baddies including Drive by Downloads.

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