Suspicious Email

I just received a weird email of a sort I've never seen in the 32 years I've been using email. The message had no subject and no sender. Stupidly, I started to open it, caught myself, and then tried to delete it from the opening of my inbox. It disappeared, but I can't see it in Inbox, Spam, or Trash. Does what I've described sound like a worm, hack, or virus of a known kind? I realize that Yahoo has been having email tech challenges. Could this in some way be related to that?

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Answer #1: Posted by Odin on February 12th, 2014 4:32 PM

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Yes, it could be. You were right to ignore it. To continue to try to delete the message, try these steps.

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