Hack

[Bob Sneidar]

Actually, if I may beg to differ, what probably happened is that someone else with his address got compromised. Malicious Email spammers never use headers that indicate where the email really came from. If they did the mail could be traced back pretty quickly. If email went out as if from him, the one thing you can be almost positively certain about is that his computer was not the one compromised, or at least is not the one sending the spam. 

It is possible that someone in China got his Gmail credentials via a compromise on his computer and is logging into his account from China to send their spam. I find this unlikely however, because again the offending computer could be traced through the Google connection records. Dumb spammer maybe? It's possible. 

I did get an email from another On-Rev user with a link in the body which did not look right so I deleted it. 

Bob


On Apr 14, 2011, at 1:40 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> On 4/14/11 3:00 PM, Mike Bonner wrote:
>> Apparently my gmail was accessed from china last night. My apologies if
>> anything was posted here. Password changed hopefully thats enough.
> 
> I've received several of the same type of emails from different people, starting yesterday. There is never a subject. The links are all different. There is never a text body.
> 
> I don't think your account was hacked, I think you have a virus that is sending spam to all your email contacts. Probably you should do a scan.
> 
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