I)onna......Re: Uh oh. 's email has been hijacked!

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Donna....We've had about a half dozen members on this group who have had their emails hijacked. Several were inactive members and I tried to contact them but didn't get a response so I had to remove them from the group. I am an owner of our local freecycle group and it has hit several people there too. I've been trying to help one get rid of it and if you have any suggestions please let me know. I told her to change her passwords, run her virus software, a spyware detector, and then change her passwords again. But she is still having the same problem. SharonThis email is a natural hand made product. The slight variations in spelling and grammar enhance its individual character and beauty and in no way are to be considered flaws or defects. To: MSersLife Sent: Sun, November 14, 2010 10:31:19 AMSubject: Re: Uh oh. 's email has been hijacked!

Too late..

already saw the ads.. LOL

and I even had to copy & paste to do it!!.. Some mornings

I'm dumber than dirt..

I do have all kinds of "protective" things running, so shouldn't

have a problem with my mail being hi-jacked though..

PeerBlock is a great little program to have running in the

background.. it's just additional protection.. that I keep

running on all the machines here.

HUGS

|)onna

I see 's email has been hijacked. I am

going to put her on moderation until she can get it cleared up.

WARNING: don't open the links that came from her address!

hugs

Sharon

This email is a natural hand made product.

The slight variations in spelling and grammar enhance its

individual character and beauty and in no way are to be

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Does anyone know how someone can use your e-mail address to do this? I've had 1 friend and my nephews e-mail show up like this, and I deleted both and didn't open either one.

Hugs and Love, Jackie

May the peace of God be with you...the love of Jesus enfold you...and the Spirit of Christ fill you.

I see 's email has been hijacked. I am going to put her on moderation until she can get it cleared up. WARNING: don't open the links that came from her address!hugs

SharonThis email is a natural hand made product. The slight variations in spelling and grammar enhance its individual character and beauty and in no way are to be considered flaws or defects.

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Jackie,

There are some virus' that do nothing more to the computer than

hi-jack an email account.. actually they don't hi-jack the

account so much as they steal all the information in the

person's address book, thereby getting the email address of

everybody in the address book, and then the stolen email

information is used to pass the virus on to the people that were

in the address book... (if opened, it's much like a chain

letter.. in as.. 1 open, 6 emails go out to the people from the

address book, if all 6 open it and have 6 people in their

address book.. 6 more emails are sent.. and so on and so

forth..)

The email will look as if it came from the person whose address

book info was stolen, so that the unsuspecting receiver will

open the email, thus infecting themselves and propagating the

spread of that particular virus..

IF you are running an anti-virus program (such as Avast!) and

allow it to scan incoming emails you'd get a very strong warning

about opening the suspect email.. heuristic warnings are

something to heed, but not necessarily a "this email definitely

contains a virus" type message.. [Thunderbird, itself has a few

detections built in.. I'll see message like.. "we think this is

spam".. "we think this could be a scam".. etc.] Mine is set up

(and I can't remember if it came this way, or I checked

something in configuration) to not load remote content of a

message.. unless I say.. sure.. I trust this person, go ahead an

load it.. or if I add the person to my address book, that's the

same as me saying I trust this person, without me having to

click on the button saying.. yup.. go ahead and load it..

Google this term, without the quotations: "email propagated

virus". The second result titled 'Email Virus Propagation

Modeling and Analysis'... Click on the little thing that sez

"Quick View".. otherwise the website will want you to download

and open a pdf file.. I prefer quick view as to actually

downloading the pdf file to my computer and then opening it..

The abstract part of the paper, is fairly technical, though

readable.. But starting at the "Introduction" part of the paper,

from what I've skimmed, looks like it will explain a bit better

than I could.. It does give a history of virii from the

beginning of time.. <grin>.. But I'm pretty sure it will

explain all this stuff better than I can in an email..

Hope this helps

HUGS

|)onna

Does

anyone know how someone can use your e-mail address to

do this? I've had 1 friend and my nephews e-mail show up

like this, and I deleted both and didn't open either

one.

Hugs

and Love, Jackie

May the peace

of God be with you...

the love of Jesus enfold

you...

and the Spirit of Christ

fill you.

I

see 's email has been hijacked. I am

going to put her on moderation until she can

get it cleared up.

WARNING: don't open the links that came

from her address!

hugs

Sharon

This

email is a natural hand made product.

The slight variations in spelling and

grammar enhance its individual

character and beauty and in no way are

to be considered flaws or defects.

From:

Trimm

To:

amyhugon@...;

mserslife ;

bobw316@...;

chadma@...;

addisonnicole92@...;

dennisobanion@...;

craftycritters@...;

ann.rmathis@...;

smyelingroovy@...

Sent:

Sat, November 13, 2010 10:21:55 PM

Subject:

(unknown)

http://errevolution.net/dir.php

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