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Re: urgent... please read - possible virus in Paul Hurwood's post

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PaulJan 15, 2012
 

 
Hi All,

I just thought I should update you all on the situation. I'll keep it brief.

As you may notice this is coming from a different email address. I have
closed down the whole Yahoo account that caused yesterday mornings problems.
That means email and groups account. From what I can gather there can be no
further emails from that account that can cause harm.

I have scanned my PC with Norton's Anti Virus twice and on Epsen and Don's
suggestions have tried out MSE (which I actually quite like.) I have run a
quick scan with MSE and that came up clean and another Full scan is planned
for over night. Spybot has been running the whole time.

I am pretty sure that it was a web based problem as I checked out Yahoo's
handy Account Information tool and at 8.56 Sunday morning my account was
accessed allegedly by someone in India using Yahoo Mobile.

Anyway. I think I have done as much as I can for today. Thanks to almost
everyone for the advice. I shall now await the exam result through the door
after, hopefully passing this exam.

All The Best

Paul

Oh yeah.. News Quiz coming up tomorrow evening.

----- Original Message -----
From: "bikerdoncyclist" <don@...>
To: <just-a-minute@...>
Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 11:38 PM
Subject: [just-a-minute] Re: urgent... please read - possible virus in Paul
Hurwood's post


I agree an anti-virus scan is a good idea but there is a fair chance your AV
program of choice will find nothing, it is a good idea to try more than one,
but not at the same time. MSE is well regarded these days but it may not do
the trick.

Viruses are only one of several ways to hack email accounts.

> there's no use in changing passwords etc.
I think you'll find that is a recommended course of action to take in such
cases


--- In just-a-minute@..., "Espen Krømke" <espen.kromke@...>
wrote:
>
> It's no real person who does this, it's a virus.
>
> Paul, there's no use in changing passwords etc. You need to clean your
> PC with a virus killer, or if that doesn't work I'm afraid you'll need
> to do a clean reinstall of the system.
>
> If you are a Windows user Microsoft has a decent virus killer called
> "Microsoft Security Essentials". It's free, just Google it and you'll
> get a link to a download in your language.
>
>

 
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