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Morning guys,
I've had a couple of emails, one last night and another this morning. They appeared to come from a 'Mark Brown', I actually have a guy I deal with in work called Mark Brown who sends me emails in this format. As I was half asleep when I checked it last night I didn't inspect this email properly (as I thought it was from a trusted contact) and as soon as I clicked on the link ESET terminated the connection and stated that it had quarantined a variant of a W32 Trojan. Obviously didn't do the same with the one which came through this morning!
Anyway, the email address they appear to have been sent from is:
'[email protected]'
Will send them through to Freeola abuse now.
I've had a couple of emails, one last night and another this morning. They appeared to come from a 'Mark Brown', I actually have a guy I deal with in work called Mark Brown who sends me emails in this format. As I was half asleep when I checked it last night I didn't inspect this email properly (as I thought it was from a trusted contact) and as soon as I clicked on the link ESET terminated the connection and stated that it had quarantined a variant of a W32 Trojan. Obviously didn't do the same with the one which came through this morning!
Anyway, the email address they appear to have been sent from is:
'[email protected]'
Will send them through to Freeola abuse now.
Dr. Garin wrote:
I wonder if Pete's spam could be traced back to Capcom. :P
Nah, these viruses were free! :P
I wonder if Pete's spam could be traced back to Capcom. :P
Nah, these viruses were free! :P
I wonder if Pete's spam could be traced back to Capcom. :P
Brown or Smith or Singh or Jones or .... still the same, a common surname ... works every time :¬)
DL wrote:
pete_21 wrote:
[i]So it's just me again is it DL?
It's a problem pete, but dean's advice seems to be spot on, plus the link to Yahoo's FAQ.[/i]
Yeah it could well be that or perhaps the people sending these things out are really taking the mick by using names like Mark Brown?
pete_21 wrote:
[i]So it's just me again is it DL?
It's a problem pete, but dean's advice seems to be spot on, plus the link to Yahoo's FAQ.[/i]
Yeah it could well be that or perhaps the people sending these things out are really taking the mick by using names like Mark Brown?
pete_21 wrote:
So it's just me again is it DL?
It's a problem pete, but dean's advice seems to be spot on, plus the link to Yahoo's FAQ.
So it's just me again is it DL?
It's a problem pete, but dean's advice seems to be spot on, plus the link to Yahoo's FAQ.
Thanks for that Dean, perhaps these mails are being sent from a hacked Yahoo account then? Suppose it was just unlucky that this account happens to be the same name as one of my trusted contacts (it is not his account BTW). I did send a couple in to abuse@freeola if anyone wants to have a look at them? Luckily ESET seems to have jumped in and prevented my system from becoming infected.
So it's just me again is it DL? Wouldn't be so bothered if they were the usual viagra, fake watches, viagra so powerful that you could strap your fake watch on it etc....... but links to viruses are slightly worrying especially as I do not have the superb ESET installed on all of my systems and although I obviously won't be clicking on anymore of these links someone else in my household could.
So it's just me again is it DL? Wouldn't be so bothered if they were the usual viagra, fake watches, viagra so powerful that you could strap your fake watch on it etc....... but links to viruses are slightly worrying especially as I do not have the superb ESET installed on all of my systems and although I obviously won't be clicking on anymore of these links someone else in my household could.
I've known people to have similar issues to this before. Basically you receive dodgy emails from a person that you trust on Yahoo.
The few times I've seen this before, the person who's email account the messages were being sent from, changes their email password, and the dodgy emails seem to stop.
Not 100% sure what causes it, I'd guess that somehow a bot has hold of their Yahoo details.
EDIT: This also looks to be a top question on their abuse page.
The few times I've seen this before, the person who's email account the messages were being sent from, changes their email password, and the dodgy emails seem to stop.
Not 100% sure what causes it, I'd guess that somehow a bot has hold of their Yahoo details.
EDIT: This also looks to be a top question on their abuse page.
Morning pete (just), you seem to be the chosen one! Not had any iffy emails for a few weeks now.
Just had another couple of these, same sender.
Morning guys,
I've had a couple of emails, one last night and another this morning. They appeared to come from a 'Mark Brown', I actually have a guy I deal with in work called Mark Brown who sends me emails in this format. As I was half asleep when I checked it last night I didn't inspect this email properly (as I thought it was from a trusted contact) and as soon as I clicked on the link ESET terminated the connection and stated that it had quarantined a variant of a W32 Trojan. Obviously didn't do the same with the one which came through this morning!
Anyway, the email address they appear to have been sent from is:
'[email protected]'
Will send them through to Freeola abuse now.
I've had a couple of emails, one last night and another this morning. They appeared to come from a 'Mark Brown', I actually have a guy I deal with in work called Mark Brown who sends me emails in this format. As I was half asleep when I checked it last night I didn't inspect this email properly (as I thought it was from a trusted contact) and as soon as I clicked on the link ESET terminated the connection and stated that it had quarantined a variant of a W32 Trojan. Obviously didn't do the same with the one which came through this morning!
Anyway, the email address they appear to have been sent from is:
'[email protected]'
Will send them through to Freeola abuse now.