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harry, can you tell us what the link does, just an intro? In this past week, my e-mail account has been hacked / comprimised, whatever the right word is and it shows me as spamming everyone in my address book, even me.

Didn't click on the link either but I can tell you my computer doesn't do shit when I'm asleep.

It's turned off.
WIFI disconnected

Originally Posted by natalie8

my e-mail account has been hacked / comprimised

How can they do that without your password ?

It's a harmless SWF file, with no malicious payload.

I watched it,

So that's who sticks all the porno pop ups on here

BTW, Natalie is your email account Hotmail ?

Originally Posted by sabaii sabaii

I watched it,

So that's who sticks all the porno pop ups on here

BTW, Natalie is your email account Hotmail ?

Huh? What you on about?

No, it's Yahoo! I tried Hotmail a few times and really don't like it. Here's what came up on Yahoo! Answers:

My yahoo mail is sending spam mails to my list automatically.?

My yahoo mail automatically sends out spam mails to my list of friends and it irritates me. Is this a virus? If so, How can I fix this?

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There are a few options:

1) Your account has been compromised, and is being used to send spam. Change your password and your security questions.

2) Your e-mail address has been used as (spoofed) sender. This means you`ll get failure notices like this, but sadly, you cannot do anything about this. It will stop eventually.

3) You may have a virus, that uses your e-mail program to send stuff to others. Scan your system (after you update your program) and then scan for spyware and other nasty stuff.

If you do step 1 and 3 - chances are this will stop.
If your address is spoofed, you will get some of these every now and then - but that too will, eventually, stop.

OK, I just opened it to watch it. It's good but I saw the same one before, about a year ago.

If you are getting hacked then it is your own stupid fault don't blame yahoo.

Gee, thanks, bsnub.

Originally Posted by bsnub

If you are getting hacked then it is your own stupid fault don't blame yahoo.

Once again. How can they hack it without your password ?

Originally Posted by superman

Once again. How can they hack it without your password ?

I'll have to find that out. This has happened to quite a few people that I know, over the past 3 or 4 years. I guess I should tell them all that it's their own stupid fault.

Ok now I feel bad. Do this;

Step one;

Download and run this; Malwarebytes run it.

Step two

Reset all your email passwords to include numbers, letters, caps, and so on.

Step three

Always hit the "log out" option when checking sensitive sites like email. Often times you will stay logged in for a indeterminable amount of time and this allows hackers to compromise your accounts.

That's good.

BTW, I really shouldn't tempt fate, buuuuuut... I changed to Ubuntu a few months back and have had zero problems, and it's much quicker. Wish I'd done so years ago.

bsnub, can you answer superman's question of how it happens? I know that there are a lot of viruses, spambots, malware, phishing sites and whatever that get you to either click on a link or site, or that e-mail you under a friend's name, but how exactly does it work?

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Originally Posted by sabaii sabaii

I watched it,

So that's who sticks all the porno pop ups on here

BTW, Natalie is your email account Hotmail ?

Huh? What you on about?

The Matchstick Man Harry, that's who I'm blaming anyway


I wouldn't bother with Yahoo or Hotmail, Natalie. I had the same thing with hotmail, it was even sending me spam from my own email address

Originally Posted by superman

Once again. How can they hack it without your password ?

I'm inquisitive. If someone tells me it may prevent me getting hacked.

Originally Posted by natalie8

bsnub, can you answer superman's question of how it happens? I know that there are a lot of viruses, spambots, malware, phishing sites and whatever that get you to either click on a link or site, or that e-mail you under a friend's name, but how exactly does it work?

Many different ways. Hackers have programs that they design to crack passwords. They are more talented then the mainstream.

The key point here is that more than likely your password was weak and was broken by a bot that was placed up on your email.

So make a strong password that will be hard to break. Something that will combine small case, caps, punctuation and numbers. Then you will be safe against those bots.

OK, thanks.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Butterfly's probably done it loads of times.
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Yep true that!!!

^ What's that, Felching ???