How Is This Possible? Scam Tech Help Needed

catz747

Hi,

I have logged into my paypal account yesterday and today and all is fine there - I was paying for some ebay stuff.

After both times, shortly after I received an email - a paypal spoof mail telling me I had paid for a dell computer $699 - an obvious spoof and nothing wrong or untoward in my paypal account.

Is it a coincidence or not?

I have been on adaware and made sure I have deleted tracking cookies etc.

Is there anything else I need to do?

Thanks

Browntoa

i think it's just a coincidence, any hacker worth his stuff is after your logon details to set up his own dodgy deals rather than trying to scam you

Browntoa

if you want me to double check you are clean go here

http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/

download and run hijackthis (the flashing green light on the left of the screen) and copy the log it produces back here (it does not reveal anything confidential about you or your Pc) and I'll take a look at it for you

catz747

The log is huge, are you sure I should paste it here?

Browntoa

yes, no problem...we do it in other posts all the time

you can delete it after I take a look if you wish

catz747

EDITED: content removed

sicker

Browntoa, I'm interested too. Let us know if there are any suspect lines. How you understand all these inputs is beyond me.

Best regards

John

Browntoa

all clean, nothing to worry about

i cannot see evidence of a firewall or Antivirus software running ??

Browntoa

sicker wrote:

Browntoa, I'm interested too. Let us know if there are any suspect lines. How you understand all these inputs is beyond me.

Best regards

John

I look initially at the running processes at the top, most are easily identified by the location, ie HP etc and I know all those ones at the top in the system32 directory

I'm then looking in the ones beginning with R1 to see if internet explorer is being misdirected elsewhere, then the ones beginning 016 to see what is allowed access to download stuff at ANY time...rest is just experience of what looks wrong

sicker

Browntoa, many thanks, experiance is what I lack. (and tooooo late now to get it)

John

catz747

Thanks a lot Browntoa, I'll check my firewall, I thought it was on. Also need to sort myself some antivirus