IMPORTANT! Have you received an email to your forum username?

mr_fishbulb

TDyl wrote: »

This is probably nothing to do with this site as nefarious webizens can use certain tools to skim websites for user details

Not details which the user has elected to remain private (like the email address on here).

BernieB_2

sinbads wrote: »

Havung not used MSE for a while i too have received the email,thinking it was genuine and perhaps could be useful I dd open the zipped file and and clicked the contents ooops. Its not like me i'm usually very careful, anyway checking the folders with my AV doesn't show anything and currently running malwarebytes and superanti spyware to see if it comes up with anything.

will let you know.

I can't add a website link on this forum but if you go to virusscan.jotti.org or virustotal.com, well recognised online scanning sites, click browse and browse to where you have the news-tool.exe file downloaded on your computer, then upload, you can scan the file and see which commercial programmes are picking this up as a trojan and which aren't. I use Kaspersky, for example, and it isn't recognising it.

cally6008

Yep, I had one of them too. It went straight to spam folder so read it, didnt click links and deleted it

fiscalfreckles

Got one too.

chickywiggle

cally6008 wrote: »

Yep, I had one of them too. It went straight to spam folder so read it, didnt click links and deleted it

same here, google automatically spammed mine.

savemoney

I haven't had one but I am very cautious

I dont give my email address out and have no script plug in which helps prevent dodgy sites loading malicious software

Most of my email goes straight in spam box using gmail had a look in all my gmail accounts and cant find this email if it was sent

helping_hubby

Yep I had the same email. I wondered how they connected my username with my email...

Elle7

I got this too, I forwarded it to Abuse before I saw this...

rainbowfairydust

have also had the same email. Thought it looked suspicious so deleted it straight away...

Mcfi5dhc

No email for me, nothing in spam folders either.

Thanks