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Bear with me…
The other night I received an email which is unusual because I never receive emails (except from JC when I’ve forgotton to tick the *stop watching this topic* box)
I can also honestly say I’ve never sent an email from this m s n addy.
I opened it because it was from one of the few people I have on my m s n contacts.
It was a reply to an email I had apparently sent :shock:
there were 2 other names at top of e mail I had *sent* it to
these three people are the only ones Ive ever spoke to on my m s n with my new password.
No one in my house knows my password in fact no one on this planet does
Has this happened to anyone else ?
and if anyone on my contacts list receives and email from me, delete it
I dont send emails
I found it a little un nerving. :?
Should I change my password
I dunno …. sorry…
But I thought you deserved a reply after typing all that out.
bless you for being so considerate sharon
Depends what the e mail was i guess if it was some automatic one sent to your contact list then that might explain it
Sounds like worm spoofing.
If it is, maybe this will help:
Simply put, spoofing as it relates to worm dissemination, works like this:
Someone who has your email address stored somewhere on her or his computer, becomes infected by a worm that uses spoofing.
The worm searches for email addresses on the infected computer and sends itself to them.
The worm inserts one of the email addresses it finds in the “From:” field of the virus emails it sends. In other words, it may use your address in the “From:” field, which tricks unwary recipients into thinking that the virus came from your computer.
Thus, even though you may practice safe computing and have a worm free machine, you may be unfairly accused of spreading the infection. Meanwhile, the actual sender may remain unaware that his or her machine is infected.
pete it was one that referred to a competition for holiday abroad
You had to click on a link
as I’m so computer illiterate I don’t know how to insert links so it deffo wasn’t from meThe three recipients are people who I have spoken to in m s n recently
There is some stuff that will read you address book maybe you just clicked wrong button ?
thank you lil fek for your help.
After I’ve read your post 5 times slowly, I shall try to sort it out.
To be as pc thick as me takes intelligencesounds like a normal run-of-the-mill spam message to me. Ive no idea how these companies get hold of our addys but they do.
why not try re-posting this in techical help down there a bit / / and see what answers that generates…. despite what you may think DOa and PB are quite helpful there. (as are others too). x
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