Was sent on an e-mail address that I was told was a pirate.

Original title: Hacker threat

I received an email from a friend stating that if I get an email from a Simon Ashton, i.e. * address email is removed from the privacy * Mail Server Report, do not open it because it is a pirate and he will undertake a serious virus that will infect my PC and anyone on my mailing list. How can I know if this is true or false information?

You know someone named Simon Ashton?

In general, many people do not open emails from unknown senders - and certainly not to open attachments or click on links in e-mails from unknown senders.

In contrast, many (if not most) of transmitted "warnings" that your friends send you are hoaxes that do nothing but clutter up your email (and that of many others).  This seems to be the case here: http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/internet/a/simon_ashton.htm

Whenever you receive an email that includes the exhortation to "pass this along to everyone you know as soon as possible," delete... and say that whoever sent it to you to get a life and stop sending hoax emails.

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