My e-mail has been hijacked.

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PenMan1

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Friends:
My e-mail account has been hijacked. Please DO NOT open any e-mails from me until I have this situation resolved. These e-mails should be immediately deleted.

I can't use e-mail until this is corrected.

Thanks for you for you patience and understanding. Do NOT open any St. Patrick's Day greetings from anyone, even if you think you know them. This is where the Trojan came from.
 
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Butch:
It was an e-mail from a friend (at least, I thought it was). The subject line was Happy St. Patrick's Day.

There was no attachment. After I opened this e-mail, the computer rebooted. Everything seemed normal until this morning (about 3 am) is started repeatedly send spam to my entire contact list.

I do not use Outlook on this computer. I assume it got my contacts from
Webmail?

I'll know more tonight. This is not how I hoped to spend my day! I have my first big show next weekend and I need to be preparing, not untangling malicious mischief.
 
FWIW It keeps sending with different titles too. I have gotten three different ones so far this morning.

But hey Andy, what makes you think that anyone ever opens your emails??? :tongue::biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:
 
I got hit with one of those about six months ago! Mine was because someone hacked into gmail's servers themselves and a place in china sent out stuff to hundreds of gmail users' contact lists.
 
you need a software firewall (like zone alarm free) you can set it to block outgoing emails

this is not a fix to your infection but will stop sending the emails all the time while your online

I would also look at getting a different anti-virus program. I use avast free and it will scan all emails before I even see them...and it will block any infections from emails to possible harmful websites
 
I have a commercial Cisco 16 port router with firewall. Red Brick physical firewall, up to date AVG on all of the computers on the network.

Everything on my end scans clean. It just about has to be coming from AT&T's Webmail server.
 
Oooorrr....you can buy a mac. I have never been hijacked, had a virus, had to run virus scans, firewalls, had my computer slow down to a crawl or any of that ridiculous stuff since i bought one. Sorry i had to be the one to say something like that. And i know not everyone likes a Mac,but I will never go back to a PC. What a head ache!

Sorry about your hijacking.

Akula said:
you need a software firewall (like zone alarm free) you can set it to block outgoing emails

this is not a fix to your infection but will stop sending the emails all the time while your online

I would also look at getting a different anti-virus program. I use avast free and it will scan all emails before I even see them...and it will block any infections from emails to possible harmful websites
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Timebandit said:
Oooorrr....you can buy a mac. I have never been hijacked, had a virus, had to run virus scans, firewalls, had my computer slow down to a crawl or any of that ridiculous stuff since i bought one. Sorry i had to be the one to say something like that. And i know not everyone likes a Mac,but I will never go back to a PC. What a head ache!

Sorry about your hijacking.

Akula said:
you need a software firewall (like zone alarm free) you can set it to block outgoing emails

this is not a fix to your infection but will stop sending the emails all the time while your online

I would also look at getting a different anti-virus program. I use avast free and it will scan all emails before I even see them...and it will block any infections from emails to possible harmful websites
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I am also a MAC user and in the twenty years of using it I have never had any problems. I also had an HP for a year and it was down most of the time and cost a fortune to fix. Then I got rid of it.
 
PenMan1 said:
Friends:
My e-mail account has been hijacked. Please DO NOT open any e-mails from me until I have this situation resolved. These e-mails should be immediately deleted.

I can't use e-mail until this is corrected.

Thanks for you for you patience and understanding. Do NOT open any St. Patrick's Day greetings from anyone, even if you think you know them. This is where the Trojan came from.
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I was wondering...I recieved a link to Viagra from you.....um...uh...really?
 
I had a Mac once. It will be my last. I would've had to pay like 3 time as much for a Mac comparable to my PC. The one problem I had with my mac, Apple prove their "geniuses" were, in fact, morons. Their solution to my DVD drive breaking was that I should replace the entire laptop with a newer model.
 
Timebandit said:
Oooorrr....you can buy a mac. I have never been hijacked, had a virus, had to run virus scans, firewalls, had my computer slow down to a crawl or any of that ridiculous stuff since i bought one. Sorry i had to be the one to say something like that. And i know not everyone likes a Mac,but I will never go back to a PC. What a head ache!

Sorry about your hijacking.
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Don't make the mistake of thinking Macs are immune to viruses. It's just that nobody has written any for them yet. If someone ever decides to really screw up the Apple lovers' day...
 
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