Sunday, March 7, 2010
E-mail Spam Alert
My e-mail account has been hijacked and various spam emails which appear to have come from my address are being sent to my entire address book. I am taking steps to stop this hack attack but for now don't open any obscure mail from my address. Sorry for any inconvenience or confusion this may be causing....Guard your passwords!!
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Hi Steve, Sorry to hear about the virus (arrrgh!!!). I did get two spam e-mails from your address about online pharmaceuticals, but no harm from them. Thanks for the head's up.
Don't know if that virus is the culprit or not, but our pc is dead!
(I'm on my office computer)
I hate computers!
I've run complete scans with three different antivirus/antispy programs and have found nothing on my machines. I've also changed email passwords and believe the problem has been nipped. No viruses were found in the emails bounced back to me but don't know what sort of bug might have been waiting at any of the websites that were linked from the email message.
I think the problem occurred because I inadvertently used my email password as a password to another site. Someone connected the dots and had access to my email account. I think it is stopped now but please everyone be vigilant and creative...don't let your privacy be invaded!
By the way, bracket info emails will be sent out soon. Real email from the real me.
Ughh, as a P.C. user for decades, this is the kind of crud which finally broke my camel's back and drove me into the open arms of apple computers. If one can get beyond the pretentious marketing and inflated price tag, I've found four years now of worry free computing on a macbook using apple and pc software. There may come a day when spam and virus developers spend time developing nasty software to invade apple computers, but they are currently such a tiny portion of the computing market, for the forseeable future it doesn't provide them any incentive. If anyone is interested in knowing about the "converting" experience I'm happy to fill you in.
I remember my first timid steps into the PC world...2500 bucks for a Pentium 166ghz machine running Windows 98 with a whopping 3.2gb hard drive. It changed my world and now I'm not sure how I'd manage without the daily interaction with my "little friend"; perhaps I'd be better off without it, only interacting with the 'real world' right in front of me.
It's hard to change spots but "they" say change is good, so I'm always open to something new.
Really, though, I believe that there are always negatives to every positive and every mistake or misstep is an opportunity for learning and no matter how much you cover your a** something will jump up and bite you. Old dogs learn new tricks with great difficulty and I'm afraid I'm one of the old dogs.
Thanks for the alert!
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