Warning! Email Hack! No BS!!!!!!!!!

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No bs! I responded to an email from an old friend and now it's emailing my entire list!!!!!!!!!!!

Do not respond if it's from me!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
That has happened to me Joe, A member sent me a picture of a car and I got a tune of his picture files, I cant remember who it was.
 
It was a email hack, not a virus. Like I said, I have it dealt with. Sorry all for any viagra ads you might have got...
 
So....You're not really giving me a 69 RR ? bummer

Yep, got one but didn't open. Glad you got it resolved.
 
I received one from another member that looked suspicious so I PM'd him to verify it and he confirmed that something had gotten into his address book and was sending the Viagra/drug email out.
 
DRENO said:
I got one,it said you had resolved it,should i open it or delete it?
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Just delete it.

GTXperience said:
I received one from another member that looked suspicious so I PM'd him to verify it and he confirmed that something had gotten into his address book and was sending the Viagra/drug email out.
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Yep, that's exactly what happened to me. It wasn't a virus but it was a e-mail password exploit. I changed my password as soon as I realized what was going on and that solved the problem. I had responded to an e-mail from an old friend that had stated that she had changed her e-mail address. There were no attachments so I thought nothing of it, and since I use Windows Live Mail, there was nothing technically on my machine so my anti-virus didn't catch it. sigh.... You'd think people had better things to do with their time than come up with a Windows Live exploit. I've been avoiding getting Outlook 2007 but I guess it's time to just shell out the cash and quit being such a software cheapskate.

Sorry for any inconvenience all.
 
Hmmm in the last day I've gotten emails from people I don't know. Maybe just a coincidence. I don't know much about computers but one thing I do know is to delete unknown emails.
 
goldfish65 said:
Hmmm in the last day I've gotten emails from people I don't know. Maybe just a coincidence. I don't know much about computers but one thing I do know is to delete unknown emails.
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Yep, just delete them. I haven't heard from this one gal in 5 years so I thought it would be nice to get back in touch, my bad.. :angry7:
 
Well Joe, depending on the way you look at it ... Maybe she wants you to hit the Canadian pharmacy and then come see her again. ;-)

I know I was a bit surprised when I read your email and copied the link last night. Hopefully it didn't attach itself to anything I generate (if anybody gets a suspicious email from me, please let me know).

Glad you got the invasion under control!
 
My computer was hacked by a member here once.

They are a pretty low key member with not many posts.
 
CudaChick1968 said:
Well Joe, depending on the way you look at it ... Maybe she wants you to hit the Canadian pharmacy and then come see her again. ;-)

I know I was a bit surprised when I read your email and copied the link last night. Hopefully it didn't attach itself to anything I generate (if anybody gets a suspicious email from me, please let me know).

Glad you got the invasion under control!
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LMAO! You never fail to make me crack up. :toothy10:

DusterDude72 said:
My computer was hacked by a member here once.

They are a pretty low key member with not many posts.
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Who was it? Did you notify the mods?
 
Wow I never head of this one! I thought it had to have a attachment to do something like that. Glad to hear you got it resolved and thanks for posting about it.
 
fishy68 said:
Wow I never head of this one! I thought it had to have a attachment to do something like that. Glad to hear you got it resolved and thanks for posting about it.
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My best guess is that the email address I responded to had a program that did a packet trace and retreived the unencrypted password from Windows Live Mail. Peckerheads..... :angry7:
 
yes i contacted the mods about it....it was a couple months ago when it happened....I was in chat and the guy was asking all sorts of computer questions and asking what operating system I used and what not and then he sent me a PM and when I opened it my computer went haywire and was the worste computer virus I ever seen.

I had to completely wipe out my computer and reinstall windows 7 just to get rid of the virus because no virus scanner would touch it.
 
DusterDude72 said:
yes i contacted the mods about it....it was a couple months ago when it happened....I was in chat and the guy was asking all sorts of computer questions and asking what operating system I used and what not and then he sent me a PM and when I opened it my computer went haywire and was the worste computer virus I ever seen.

I had to completely wipe out my computer and reinstall windows 7 just to get rid of the virus because no virus scanner would touch it.
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Man that sucks. Did he get kicked off the board? should have if he didn't.
 
This happened with my Gmail acct. I left the chat option on and it grabbed all the addresses from it. It sucks!!!
 
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