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April 23rd, 2012, 02:45 AM
#1
[Inactive] e mail
hi,
saw a ton of mailer daemon in my e mail, soon realised that
someone has used virtually all the e mail addies in my contacts
to send out e mails.
The e mail is pretty obnoxious, just a link to a work at home site
but the fact that someone can do this is a bit scary,
any way I can stop it ?
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April 23rd, 2012, 04:39 AM
#2
If it's a web based email service like gmail, yahoo etc then change the password immediately.. use a strong one with 12 characters minimum, upper and lower case, numbers and a non-alphanumeric character or two. If the address book is stored locally like Outlook or Thunderbird for eg then it would be a good idea to do some scans on the computer to make sure you haven't picked up some sort of malware/exploit.
Check the thread at the top of this forum for the recommended scans..
http://discussions.virtualdr.com/sho...d.php?t=167915
Also, have a look in your email outbox and see if any of the sent emails are there.
Password strength analyzer.. http://www.passwordmeter.com/
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April 23rd, 2012, 06:02 AM
#3
THANKS for the advice,
Ive changed the password.
I used to get in there with my fire fox browser, without
signing in... gues that is not a good thing,
maybe I should take the trouble to sign in each time
and dont click on fire fox... remember this password ?
I m doing a "super anti spyware" scan and 2 trojans have
come up... hopefully they will be zapped
Its prob trojans that are sending out the e mails
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windows home 10
intel (r) Pentium (r) cpu n3700 @1.60 ghz
8 GB RAM
64 BIT OP SYSTEM
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April 23rd, 2012, 09:47 AM
#4
To be on the safe side I'd run the scans recommended above and let us have a look at the log files below.
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