Don’t open the zipped file attached to an e-mail from AA telling you your ticket is attached…I was pretty sure it was a virus as I didn’t have an AA reservation, but my win explorer scan by avast and malwarebytes said no virus (may have been my settings error?) also aol said it was virus free…any way i deleted it anyway, and today my full system scan flagged it in my trash can as a win32:SmokeLoader trojan… the file in the zip was tickets.exe …
Saw this once before in January, so it’s been around a while…
Not that new, has been doing the rounds for some time.
It is just another social engineering email scam in the hope you would be stupid enough to open the email and attachment (which of course you aren’t).
I mean who would open said email, especially when you haven’t booked a flight with AA, I even got one of these in the UK. Unfortunately curiosity has killed many cats and some people won’t learn until they suffer the consequences of such social engineering scams, no matter how many warnings are pushed out.
Given that this is a security based forum, such warnings are generally preaching to the converted.