help please appear to have been hijacked!

Quillion

mine seems ok thanks for the warning

sarerb18

essexgal wrote: »

I've just entered a couple of comps with Gloucester online - and they appear to be something to do with that. Will let you know if I get loads of spam in the next couple of days.:D

essexgal

Thanks for this. I was trying to remember which comp it was and I am pretty sure that it's something to do with them too. do you have a link for the comp you entered please.
sarer

suec

I've received that e' mail twice . I haven't heard from friends that it has gone to anyone else's though. I have had few emails returned from competitions I can't remember which ones though?

essexgal

sarerb18 wrote: »

Thanks for this. I was trying to remember which comp it was and I am pretty sure that it's something to do with them too. do you have a link for the comp you entered please.
sarer

This is for the glasses comp:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=657495

there were also comps for pair of curtains, and a 3 night b&b break.

hope this helps

essexgal

Fritha_2

I've just asked Mr Fritha who's a computer programmer and he says the most likely thing is that you have a virus and to update your virus checker and run a full virus scan. If it is that you 'should' pick it up and get rid of it. He says there's no 100% safe way of protecting yourself so it's just bad luck to pick up a virus.

He says that although it is possible that a competition could access your address book it's unlikely. He's never heard of it so you probably don't need to worry too much about entering stuff.

He's recommends downloading and running adware as that zaps spyware when you run it. The reason firefox is a bit safer is that it doesn't let websites put stuff on your computer without your permission which older versions of IE did.

Hope that helps a bit :-)

spotit

This sales message was sent to all contacts in my address book. My PC expert says they have hacked in and it is probably something to do with a competition I have entered. I only knew about it when he rang me to ask about a funny email from me. He knew straightaway what had happened. I have Panda security which is excellent and also Adwatch and Adaware. Took awhile for him to sort it all out and then I had to email everyone to apologise.
Unfortunately I can't be sure which competition was the culprit.

catz747

Well I didn't enter that Gloucesteronline one (& it didn't happen to me) if that helps

EDIT: Oh I entered the curtains one

Fritha_2

Ok follow up: I've done a bit of googling and I'm pretty convinced it's a Trojan, I found this, it's a different website address to the one in the OP but an almost identical email which is usually the giveaway, It would appear to be really common as well.

I asked Mr Fritha to take a look at that Gloucesteronline website and he says it's very unliekly that it came from there, he says normally those files are downloaded. It could have been any inocuous file that you've downloaded recently unfortunately.

chickaroonee

I entered it and had a couple of emails from Thomas Cole but that's it, no email like the one in the OP.

catz747

There was this thread about viruses and then my post at the bottom from when I was surfing

catz747 wrote: »

I downloaded the AVG as well & it just said blah blah while opening file temporary internet something or other a threat was found :eek: so I sent it to quarantine or sommat, so what does that mean then? I just opened a dodgy web page or what?