roamingguy 300292 Report post Posted March 11, 2012 Maybe should be posted in tech corner but this section gets more traffic A spam or virus email was sent to me by someone I know on my address book Turns out they really didn't send it, somehow it attached to their address book and forwarded on a spam email to everyone in the address book So if you get any emails from people in your address book and it says Click Here To See Attached Photos don't open the attachment just delete the email Dumb me, when I got it the sender I know so I opened it, been a mess of emails sent back to me RG 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
backrubman 64800 Report post Posted March 11, 2012 Dumb me, when I got it the sender I know so I opened it, been a mess of emails sent back to me RG Opps. So now you understand you are infected also and propagating the virus also? Hope so. That's how this spreads, by exploiting your trust for someone you know. MalwareBytes, Super Anti-Spyware, Spotbot Search and Destroy but lots of "fake" versions of these out there to. Never ends. Hope you have got (or will get it) cleaned up ok. Should add this one to the thread "things that suck and not in a good way" :) Don't feel bad about it, your friend got sucked into this vortex first. You're not the first or the last to fall for this one. Thanks for the warning. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
roamingguy 300292 Report post Posted March 11, 2012 Opps. So now you understand you are infected also and propagating the virus also? Hope so. That's how this spreads, by exploiting your trust for someone you know. MalwareBytes, Super Anti-Spyware, Spotbot Search and Destroy but lots of "fake" versions of these out there to. Never ends. Hope you have got (or will get it) cleaned up ok. Should add this one to the thread "things that suck and not in a good way" :) Don't feel bad about it, your friend got sucked into this vortex first. You're not the first or the last to fall for this one. Thanks for the warning. Don't worry, not spreading it with this post...once I found out deleted the emails, including the link This shouldn't affect anyone here (touch wood), I use a different email for this lifestyle, not hotmail. But I assume that there are people who use hotmail, and this may be going through hotmail RG Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
