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From: MZB on 9 Mar 2010 09:18 I have a charter account (main one) and use a Yahoo email account. Apparently, everyone from my Yahoo address book got an email (from me) with some link (I think to a drug site). Does this mean I have a virus? If so, what kind/type? I'm going to run my Avira and Malwarebytes. Mel
From: Beauregard T. Shagnasty on 9 Mar 2010 09:35 MZB wrote: > I have a charter account (main one) and use a Yahoo email account. > Apparently, everyone from my Yahoo address book got an email (from > me) with some link (I think to a drug site). Does this mean I have a > virus? If so, what kind/type? Did you change your Yahoo password yet? A spammer hacked into your Yahoo account. First thing I would do would be to change your Yahoo password. Or: the spammer simply forged your email address in his own botnet as the FROM: address. It was your turn in the barrel. (This probably would not generate mail to *your* friends, though.) Ask a few of your friends to look in the headers and see what IP address was used to send the spam. Do a whois on it/them and see where they came from. > I'm going to run my Avira and Malwarebytes. Always a good plan, regardless of the problem. -- -bts -Four wheels carry the body; two wheels move the soul
From: MZB on 9 Mar 2010 15:36 Can you help me with this? I have OE. I right click and go to properties and then details, but I cannot tell which is the IP Address I want to look up. There is nso much information there. Mel "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous(a)example.invalid> wrote in message news:hn5mal$4l7$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > MZB wrote: > >> I have a charter account (main one) and use a Yahoo email account. >> Apparently, everyone from my Yahoo address book got an email (from >> me) with some link (I think to a drug site). Does this mean I have a >> virus? If so, what kind/type? > > Did you change your Yahoo password yet? A spammer hacked into your > Yahoo account. First thing I would do would be to change your Yahoo > password. > > Or: the spammer simply forged your email address in his own botnet as > the FROM: address. It was your turn in the barrel. (This probably would > not generate mail to *your* friends, though.) > > Ask a few of your friends to look in the headers and see what IP address > was used to send the spam. Do a whois on it/them and see where they came > from. > >> I'm going to run my Avira and Malwarebytes. > > Always a good plan, regardless of the problem. > > -- > -bts > -Four wheels carry the body; two wheels move the soul
From: Beauregard T. Shagnasty on 9 Mar 2010 16:06 MZB wrote: > Can you help me with this? > I have OE. > I right click and go to properties and then details, but I cannot tell > which is the IP Address I want to look up. There is nso much > information there. Look through the: Received from: ... lines, probably the first one you encounter. Without seeing the headers, I can't say much more. Wait. Is this header forwarded to you by one of the people who got the spam from you? You need to see theirs, not one of your received mails. Please don't top-post. -- -bts -Four wheels carry the body; two wheels move the soul
From: David H. Lipman on 9 Mar 2010 17:27
From: "MZB" <moo(a)noway.prudigy.net> | I have a charter account (main one) and use a Yahoo email account. | Apparently, everyone from my Yahoo address book got an email (from me) with | some link (I think to a drug site). | Does this mean I have a virus? If so, what kind/type? | I'm going to run my Avira and Malwarebytes. | Mel It could mean your Yahoo account was compramised. -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |