OT - either someone's hacking account or spamming my email

January 6, 2011

I sent a message to , the list manager, about it. Hopefully

she can take care of it quickly.

At 01:21 PM 01/06/2011 Justi3 wrote:

>So who would we contact to have this fixed? Would group

>owner/moderator be

>able to see if any itunes emails are subscribed?

>

>Mia

--

Katrina

January 6, 2011

I sent a message to , the list manager, about it. Hopefully

she can take care of it quickly.

At 01:21 PM 01/06/2011 Justi3 wrote:

>So who would we contact to have this fixed? Would group

>owner/moderator be

>able to see if any itunes emails are subscribed?

>

>Mia

--

Katrina

January 6, 2011

Thanks Katrina.

I'm not sure if it's just this thread Holly, I think it's all of them.

Mia

>

> I sent a message to , the list manager, about it. Hopefully

> she can take care of it quickly.

>

January 6, 2011

Thanks Katrina.

I'm not sure if it's just this thread Holly, I think it's all of them.

Mia

>

> I sent a message to , the list manager, about it. Hopefully

> she can take care of it quickly.

>

January 6, 2011

It seems to have stopped (I hope?) I haven't gotten any for a while now even

with sending replies. Ran my AV & MB last night, everything was clean.

Just ran hijackthis & some of the other cleaning programs I have and still

nothing.

Hope whatever it was was fixed and if it was someone from this group's

machine infected, hope you got it cleared up! I really hate malware =(

Mia

January 6, 2011

It seems to have stopped (I hope?) I haven't gotten any for a while now even

with sending replies. Ran my AV & MB last night, everything was clean.

Just ran hijackthis & some of the other cleaning programs I have and still

nothing.

Hope whatever it was was fixed and if it was someone from this group's

machine infected, hope you got it cleared up! I really hate malware =(

Mia

January 6, 2011

It seems to have stopped (I hope?) I haven't gotten any for a while now even

with sending replies. Ran my AV & MB last night, everything was clean.

Just ran hijackthis & some of the other cleaning programs I have and still

nothing.

Hope whatever it was was fixed and if it was someone from this group's

machine infected, hope you got it cleared up! I really hate malware =(

Mia

January 6, 2011

I'm getting posts as mail and both reading and posting off my iPhone so it does

sound as if someone as a virus that has been sending posts to iTunes support.

Weird.

I'm really horrible - I have a friend that sends pictures and things and I hit

delete then tell her yeah, that was really cute!

Em

Sent from my blueberry. ( which is really an iPhone dubbed blueberry by my DH in

a moment of befuddled madness)

> I haven't been getting the automated e-mail responses you describe, but it

could be due to two factors: (a) I selected the option of only reading Group

posts in the Messages section of our Yahoo! Groups site: I don't receive Group

posts as e-mail, and ( I'm on a Mac.

>

> Note: automated ITunes e-mail messages are (so far) not appearing in the

Messages at the Group site for this Group, which tends to make me think its your

e-mail / your computer that has been hacked.

>

> If that's the case, time to get de-bugged!

>

> -Annie

>

> >

> > Are you getting one of these messages each time you post

> > here? I posted a message and got one of these messages from

> > iTunes support within a few minutes of having posted. What this

> > looks like is that someone subscribed the iTunes support address

> > to receive messages from this group. (That can happen via the

> > mechanism I described earlier if someone has both the group

> > subscription address and the iTunes support address stored

> > somewhere in their mail client. Subscribing requires a

> > confirmation response which generally prevents addresses from

> > being subscribed without the user's acceptance but since the

> > address in question automatically responds, it could have gotten

> > subscribed. ) If that's happened, then everyone who posts

> > anything here is going to get one of those replies until someone

> > fixes the problem.

> >

>

January 6, 2011

I'm getting posts as mail and both reading and posting off my iPhone so it does

sound as if someone as a virus that has been sending posts to iTunes support.

Weird.

I'm really horrible - I have a friend that sends pictures and things and I hit

delete then tell her yeah, that was really cute!

Em

Sent from my blueberry. ( which is really an iPhone dubbed blueberry by my DH in

a moment of befuddled madness)

> I haven't been getting the automated e-mail responses you describe, but it

could be due to two factors: (a) I selected the option of only reading Group

posts in the Messages section of our Yahoo! Groups site: I don't receive Group

posts as e-mail, and ( I'm on a Mac.

>

> Note: automated ITunes e-mail messages are (so far) not appearing in the

Messages at the Group site for this Group, which tends to make me think its your

e-mail / your computer that has been hacked.

>

> If that's the case, time to get de-bugged!

>

> -Annie

>

> >

> > Are you getting one of these messages each time you post

> > here? I posted a message and got one of these messages from

> > iTunes support within a few minutes of having posted. What this

> > looks like is that someone subscribed the iTunes support address

> > to receive messages from this group. (That can happen via the

> > mechanism I described earlier if someone has both the group

> > subscription address and the iTunes support address stored

> > somewhere in their mail client. Subscribing requires a

> > confirmation response which generally prevents addresses from

> > being subscribed without the user's acceptance but since the

> > address in question automatically responds, it could have gotten

> > subscribed. ) If that's happened, then everyone who posts

> > anything here is going to get one of those replies until someone

> > fixes the problem.

> >

>

January 6, 2011

I'm getting posts as mail and both reading and posting off my iPhone so it does

sound as if someone as a virus that has been sending posts to iTunes support.

Weird.

I'm really horrible - I have a friend that sends pictures and things and I hit

delete then tell her yeah, that was really cute!

Em

Sent from my blueberry. ( which is really an iPhone dubbed blueberry by my DH in

a moment of befuddled madness)

> I haven't been getting the automated e-mail responses you describe, but it

could be due to two factors: (a) I selected the option of only reading Group

posts in the Messages section of our Yahoo! Groups site: I don't receive Group

posts as e-mail, and ( I'm on a Mac.

>

> Note: automated ITunes e-mail messages are (so far) not appearing in the

Messages at the Group site for this Group, which tends to make me think its your

e-mail / your computer that has been hacked.

>

> If that's the case, time to get de-bugged!

>

> -Annie

>

> >

> > Are you getting one of these messages each time you post

> > here? I posted a message and got one of these messages from

> > iTunes support within a few minutes of having posted. What this

> > looks like is that someone subscribed the iTunes support address

> > to receive messages from this group. (That can happen via the

> > mechanism I described earlier if someone has both the group

> > subscription address and the iTunes support address stored

> > somewhere in their mail client. Subscribing requires a

> > confirmation response which generally prevents addresses from

> > being subscribed without the user's acceptance but since the

> > address in question automatically responds, it could have gotten

> > subscribed. ) If that's happened, then everyone who posts

> > anything here is going to get one of those replies until someone

> > fixes the problem.

> >

>

January 6, 2011

>

> There's a high probability that this involves someone being

> infected with malicious software rather than someone you know

> doing anything intentionally.

But who is it that's infected with the malicious software? Because I have

noticed that my spambox is filled with messages from itunes.

We have " nannyware " installed on our computer that is supposed to find and stop

malware. But it just did its scan for the day and didn't find anything but one

cookie, which it removed.

???? I don't understand this stuff.

--.

January 6, 2011

I just posted a new topic and I also got an iTunes reply message immediately.

How annoying. I hope it get fixed soon.

> >

> > There's a high probability that this involves someone being

> > infected with malicious software rather than someone you know

> > doing anything intentionally.

>

> But who is it that's infected with the malicious software? Because I have

noticed that my spambox is filled with messages from itunes.

>

> We have " nannyware " installed on our computer that is supposed to find and

stop malware. But it just did its scan for the day and didn't find anything but

one cookie, which it removed.

>

> ???? I don't understand this stuff.

>

> --.

>

January 6, 2011

I just posted a new topic and I also got an iTunes reply message immediately.

How annoying. I hope it get fixed soon.

> >

> > There's a high probability that this involves someone being

> > infected with malicious software rather than someone you know

> > doing anything intentionally.

>

> But who is it that's infected with the malicious software? Because I have

noticed that my spambox is filled with messages from itunes.

>

> We have " nannyware " installed on our computer that is supposed to find and

stop malware. But it just did its scan for the day and didn't find anything but

one cookie, which it removed.

>

> ???? I don't understand this stuff.

>

> --.

>

January 6, 2011

I just posted a new topic and I also got an iTunes reply message immediately.

How annoying. I hope it get fixed soon.

> >

> > There's a high probability that this involves someone being

> > infected with malicious software rather than someone you know

> > doing anything intentionally.

>

> But who is it that's infected with the malicious software? Because I have

noticed that my spambox is filled with messages from itunes.

>

> We have " nannyware " installed on our computer that is supposed to find and

stop malware. But it just did its scan for the day and didn't find anything but

one cookie, which it removed.

>

> ???? I don't understand this stuff.

>

> --.

>

January 6, 2011

Ack! Now I'm getting these apple.com iTunes messages in my e-mail, apparently

one for each post I make, even though I indicated that the messages are " spam "

which should block them!

How annoying! They are not appearing as Group messages at the Group site,

however, so its just our e-mail addresses that appear to be targeted.

-Annie

> > >

> > > There's a high probability that this involves someone being

> > > infected with malicious software rather than someone you know

> > > doing anything intentionally.

> >

> > But who is it that's infected with the malicious software? Because I have

noticed that my spambox is filled with messages from itunes.

> >

> > We have " nannyware " installed on our computer that is supposed to find and

stop malware. But it just did its scan for the day and didn't find anything but

one cookie, which it removed.

> >

> > ???? I don't understand this stuff.

> >

> > --.

> >

>

January 6, 2011

Ack! Now I'm getting these apple.com iTunes messages in my e-mail, apparently

one for each post I make, even though I indicated that the messages are " spam "

which should block them!

How annoying! They are not appearing as Group messages at the Group site,

however, so its just our e-mail addresses that appear to be targeted.

-Annie

> > >

> > > There's a high probability that this involves someone being

> > > infected with malicious software rather than someone you know

> > > doing anything intentionally.

> >

> > But who is it that's infected with the malicious software? Because I have

noticed that my spambox is filled with messages from itunes.

> >

> > We have " nannyware " installed on our computer that is supposed to find and

stop malware. But it just did its scan for the day and didn't find anything but

one cookie, which it removed.

> >

> > ???? I don't understand this stuff.

> >

> > --.

> >

>

January 6, 2011

At 01:26 PM 01/06/2011 anuria67854 wrote:

>I haven't been getting the automated e-mail responses you

>describe, but it could be due to two factors: (a) I selected

>the option of only reading Group posts in the Messages section

>of our Yahoo! Groups site: I don't receive Group posts as

>e-mail, and ( I'm on a Mac.

Neither of those things is going to stop iTunes support from

sending you automated messages if it gets a message from you. If

you're not getting them, it could be that they're ending up in

the spam mailbox for the e-mail account you use here. Or perhaps

you're not actually checking mail at the address you're using

here? If you read the messages via the web interface rather than

via e-mail, it might be that you're posting " from " an account

you don't regularly look at. It is also possible that some

messages here don't meet the requirements for getting automated

responses.

>Note: automated ITunes e-mail messages are (so far) not

>appearing in the Messages at the Group site for this Group,

>which tends to make me think its your e-mail / your computer

>that has been hacked.

They're unlikely to ever appear there because iTunes isn't

sending messages to this group. It automatically replies to the

address in the from: header of the messages, not the reply-to:

header. That means the messages go to the people who post

messages, not the group as a whole. Someone who has been

involved in this group at some point (although not necessarily

currently) almost certainly has a computer that is infected.

With that one exception, the people getting the messages aren't

getting them because there's anything wrong at their end. This

is going to continue until someone unsubscribes the address that

is generating the automatic replies.

It is also worth noting that as long as this is happening,

whoever reads the messages sent to iTunes support will probably

be able to see what we say. It might be a good idea to watch

what you say until this is resolved if that idea makes you

uncomfortable.

As annoying as this is, it is far better than the possibility of

a crazy nada or fada or one of their flying monkeys causing

trouble by e-mail.

--

Katrina

January 6, 2011

At 01:26 PM 01/06/2011 anuria67854 wrote:

>I haven't been getting the automated e-mail responses you

>describe, but it could be due to two factors: (a) I selected

>the option of only reading Group posts in the Messages section

>of our Yahoo! Groups site: I don't receive Group posts as

>e-mail, and ( I'm on a Mac.

Neither of those things is going to stop iTunes support from

sending you automated messages if it gets a message from you. If

you're not getting them, it could be that they're ending up in

the spam mailbox for the e-mail account you use here. Or perhaps

you're not actually checking mail at the address you're using

here? If you read the messages via the web interface rather than

via e-mail, it might be that you're posting " from " an account

you don't regularly look at. It is also possible that some

messages here don't meet the requirements for getting automated

responses.

>Note: automated ITunes e-mail messages are (so far) not

>appearing in the Messages at the Group site for this Group,

>which tends to make me think its your e-mail / your computer

>that has been hacked.

They're unlikely to ever appear there because iTunes isn't

sending messages to this group. It automatically replies to the

address in the from: header of the messages, not the reply-to:

header. That means the messages go to the people who post

messages, not the group as a whole. Someone who has been

involved in this group at some point (although not necessarily

currently) almost certainly has a computer that is infected.

With that one exception, the people getting the messages aren't

getting them because there's anything wrong at their end. This

is going to continue until someone unsubscribes the address that

is generating the automatic replies.

It is also worth noting that as long as this is happening,

whoever reads the messages sent to iTunes support will probably

be able to see what we say. It might be a good idea to watch

what you say until this is resolved if that idea makes you

uncomfortable.

As annoying as this is, it is far better than the possibility of

a crazy nada or fada or one of their flying monkeys causing

trouble by e-mail.

--

Katrina

January 6, 2011

I haven't been getting any messages either, but if it's a virus, since iTunes is

so widely used by so many people, it's quite possible that various members of

this group are getting spam from some malware that has no connection to this

group whatsoever.

Everynow and then I see the same kind of thing happen to groups of friends on

Facebook and Twitter. For awhile there, at least once a week a different Twitter

friend was getting hacked and then they would send out a load of spam to

everyone in their contacts.

Did I miss it, or is there actual proof it's connected to the Yahoo group?

> >I haven't been getting the automated e-mail responses you

> >describe, but it could be due to two factors: (a) I selected

> >the option of only reading Group posts in the Messages section

> >of our Yahoo! Groups site: I don't receive Group posts as

> >e-mail, and ( I'm on a Mac.

>

> Neither of those things is going to stop iTunes support from

> sending you automated messages if it gets a message from you. If

> you're not getting them, it could be that they're ending up in

> the spam mailbox for the e-mail account you use here. Or perhaps

> you're not actually checking mail at the address you're using

> here? If you read the messages via the web interface rather than

> via e-mail, it might be that you're posting " from " an account

> you don't regularly look at. It is also possible that some

> messages here don't meet the requirements for getting automated

> responses.

>

> >Note: automated ITunes e-mail messages are (so far) not

> >appearing in the Messages at the Group site for this Group,

> >which tends to make me think its your e-mail / your computer

> >that has been hacked.

>

> They're unlikely to ever appear there because iTunes isn't

> sending messages to this group. It automatically replies to the

> address in the from: header of the messages, not the reply-to:

> header. That means the messages go to the people who post

> messages, not the group as a whole. Someone who has been

> involved in this group at some point (although not necessarily

> currently) almost certainly has a computer that is infected.

> With that one exception, the people getting the messages aren't

> getting them because there's anything wrong at their end. This

> is going to continue until someone unsubscribes the address that

> is generating the automatic replies.

>

> It is also worth noting that as long as this is happening,

> whoever reads the messages sent to iTunes support will probably

> be able to see what we say. It might be a good idea to watch

> what you say until this is resolved if that idea makes you

> uncomfortable.

>

> As annoying as this is, it is far better than the possibility of

> a crazy nada or fada or one of their flying monkeys causing

> trouble by e-mail.

>

> --

> Katrina

>

January 6, 2011