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Virus or Hacked Email Account?
Sir Carcass
I have been shown the end of my worldRound Rock, TXRegistered User regular
I have been shown the end of my worldRound Rock, TXRegistered User regular
So Monday night at about 3am an email goes out from my wife's Hotmail account to everyone in her address book, plus a bunch of addresses she doesn't know. The email message is the following:
Needless to say, she doesn't type like that, doesn't have an iPhone or laptop, and has never heard of Mall Good. When she logged into her email, that same message was set as her signature. We scanned her machine and cleared some stuff and she logged in and changed her password. Does this sound like a virus on her machine or something specific to her email account? I googled it and found a couple of posts with people having the same thing, but no details. Anything else we should do?
Dear firend:
Hello.How are you doing recently?Some days ago, I came across a wonderful electronic company on the web and had a pleasant chat with the sales manager. He told me that they are planning to lower the prices greatly in order to adapt to the global economic crisis, so that they can expand their overseas market. I have bought an iPhone 3GS and a HP laptop ,and i am very satisfied with their items and services.If you have time,you can have a look.
Their website: Mall-good.com
Their Email/Msn: mallgood@188.com
Needless to say, she doesn't type like that, doesn't have an iPhone or laptop, and has never heard of Mall Good. When she logged into her email, that same message was set as her signature. We scanned her machine and cleared some stuff and she logged in and changed her password. Does this sound like a virus on her machine or something specific to her email account? I googled it and found a couple of posts with people having the same thing, but no details. Anything else we should do?
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Change it again, from a known-clean machine (boot from a Linux Live CD if you must) and you should be OK ... but if it happens again, her machine is keylogged.
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http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=7aa1eefbfe54b98d&hl=en
http://thintheherd.info
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And I found those links in my search, but was curious if anyone had maybe seen this before or could tell us how she got it.
Oh yeah, I've definitely learned my lesson.
And yes, they pretty much all have access to your email address in some form (much like that "Find Friends" function that basically fishes your email account for addresses).
Hello.How are you doing recently?Some days ago, I came across a wonderful electronic company on the web and had a pleasant chat with the sales manager. He told me that they are planning to lower the prices greatly in order to adapt to the global economic crisis, so that they can expand their overseas market. I have bought an iPhone 3GS and a HP laptop ,and i am very satisfied with their items and services.If you have time,you can have a look.
Their website: Mall-good.com
Their Email/Msn: mallgood@188.com
Can trade TF2 items or whatever else you're interested in. PM me.
As far as removing anything like this, what all is recommended? We currently use AVG, Spybot, and Malware bytes.
If it's the Facebook app thing, it's probably not anything actually on your computer.
Maybe deleting your cookies and stuff would prevent it happening again, but I don't think a virus scan will do anything (at least it didn't show any results for me).
I just meant in general for keeping a system clean.
Oh, in that sense, yeah... what you have listed there is pretty comprehensive. A registry cleaner program would be helpful performance-wise (though that's not really in the scope of your question) as well.