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

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kj.naughtonJan 16, 2012
 

 
Hi Paul,

I empathise. A friend of mine had similar problems with spam emails (and worse) being sent apparently from her Yahoo account. In her case simply changing the password seemed to sort it out - fortunate as she used it for her business email too. She now has her own domain name so she can switch email suppliers and keep her address. In her case I virus scanned and spyware scanned her PC to the ends of the earth and found nothing - we put it down to a simple account hijacking.

Yours is only the second time I've seen this sort of thing happen and both involved Yahoo emails. I draw no conclusions on such a low sample size but it does make you wonder...

Anyway, just to say thanks for your captures - much appreciated in this corner.

Cheers

kJ

--- In just-a-minute@..., "Paul" <paulhurwood2012@...> wrote:
>
> 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.

 
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