Hack

Pete pete at mollysrevenge.com
Thu Apr 14 18:29:35 EDT 2011


Yes, I got just one suspicious email purporting to be from someone on the
list.

Pete
Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com>




On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Bob Sneidar <bobs at twft.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > --
> > Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> > HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
> >
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