Warning plus Urgent/serious advice/help needed re: some sort of spamming

Pip26

I am getting e-mails apparantly from everyone I have ever e-mailed whether friends, family, companies saying I have sent them an e-mail with this (pasted below) on.

has anyone else had this and does anyone know what can i do about it - apart from annoying everyone - more seriously all their e-mails addresses are now known to this person/organisation to do what they want with and am really, really concerned that whoever it is has accessed/can tell what e-mail addresses are in my mail box. It's a good chance it has been genertated from something I sent off for on here - so warning to all.

V. concerned - can anyone help or tell me what to do - can they access the whole of my laptop, read things or just somehow find e-mail addresses? Does anyone know how I can stop it.

Any advice greatly appreciated.



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MARTINS_DOLL

Don't open them, as I think they can infect your Computer!!!

picklepick

sounds like an email virus. trojan? probably best to post over on the techie boards and see if anyone there can help you.

hope you get it sorted.

shimmasok

Not had that but certainly sounds like some kind of trojan or spyware

Get the following:

Ad-aware - free anti spyware - use google to find the company is lavasoft

Spybot s&D - free anti spyware - use google the company is safer-networking

Housecall - free online virus scan - again use google and the company is trend micro

Finally, AVG - this is a free anti-virus programme, should be able to find it on, you guessed it, google!

ad-aware, spybot and AVG will all need to be downloaded and then run. Housecall will scan your computer from the internet.

Hoepfully running all of this will clear your computer of all nasties!

Pip26

Thanks so much for replies - have followed a link and am doing a scan so hopefully panic over - just hope the mail hasn't infected the addresses it went to.

MARTINS_DOLL

Pip26 wrote: »

Thanks so much for replies - have followed a link and am doing a scan so hopefully panic over - just hope the mail hasn't infected the addresses it went to.

I find Skybot S&D is good, I've used that for a long while now.

Hope you get it sorted out huns...

Poppycat

This is a good program even better than S&D

http://www.malwarebytes.org

MARTINS_DOLL

Poppycat wrote: »

This is a good program even better than S&D

http://www.malwarebytes.org

Looks good, can it be used as well as S&D? Thanks...:beer:

KittyPryde

I've had that happen to me before and quite a few of my friends have aswell, all on hotmail. They seem to somehow hack into peoples email addresses then send an advertisement to everyone on your list, check your sent mail, it will be all be there, then delete them and change your password.

bugeyed

I have just posted a link for a free copy of Norton 2009. Probably a very god idea if you follow it and run a scan. Does look like you have a trojan. Search the freebies board for my post 'free norton internet security' or follow this link http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=14756279#post14756279
Best of luck sorting it out

ClaireLR

Hi, I don't wish to worry you but I had a similar type of thing come to me a few days ago, next day I realised that my hotmail and ebay accounts had been hacked, you might want to change all your passwords to email/ebay accounts etc and get your friends who have been sent this email to as well.