I might have been hacked.

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  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,050
    edited December 1969

    Kattey said:
    Just currently my email gave me a bunch of failure-to-deliver autoreplies for tickets I didn't submit and emails I didn't send. If you get any unautorized email from me, DON"T PRESS anything in that link and better just burn it without opening.

    Wait... burn the whole computer or just the email? Should I print it out and then burn it?... I like burning things, but I'm not sure about burning the whole computer... seems a bit extreme, couldn't I just burn it in effigy, like some unwelcome dictator at a financial summit in Brussels?... Do the have financial summits in Brussels? It seems like somewhere CNN would announce "today hundreds of angry Brusselonians burned a Muammar Gaddafi action figure at the Really Important Financial Summit 3 in Brussels as show of anger and other stuff etc.."... I know Muammar Gaddafi is still dead so they wouldn't actually burn him in effigy anymore, but maybe it was cold and they had a lot of extra action figures of him left over... I don't know... How would I know if you authorized the email? Too bad emails don't have those fancy wax seals like they used to in the 90s... actually how do I know this message is real? Where is your avatar? What is your favorite color of the alphabet?
    Now I'm worried... this could all be a trap... now I have to go burn something...
  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001
    edited December 1969

    Using an email client (Thunderbird, Windows Live Mail etc) rather than the web interface may help you against cross-site vulnerabilities, since you aren't logged in to the website when checking your mail, but it wouldn't help with the other avenues of attack.

    Except in Yahoo...that's a 'premium' feature...which means $$$ to get email client access. Not sure about Gmail or other webmail providers.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,505
    edited December 1969

    mjc1016 said:
    Using an email client (Thunderbird, Windows Live Mail etc) rather than the web interface may help you against cross-site vulnerabilities, since you aren't logged in to the website when checking your mail, but it wouldn't help with the other avenues of attack.

    Except in Yahoo...that's a 'premium' feature...which means $$$ to get email client access. Not sure about Gmail or other webmail providers.

    Yeah, I've got one business customer that just won't divorce themselves from their Yahoo e-mail address. I've setup a proper business website and business e-mail using their own domain but they just can't seem to break the habit of using their Yahoo address so every year I have to charge then for the Yahoo premium service so that the Yahoo mail can be collected by Microsoft Outlook and present both their domain mail and their Yahoo mail with one application. At least I was able to convince them of that so that it wasn't necessary to access Yahoo by web browser. Oy!

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,753
    edited March 2013

    mjc1016 said:
    Using an email client (Thunderbird, Windows Live Mail etc) rather than the web interface may help you against cross-site vulnerabilities, since you aren't logged in to the website when checking your mail, but it wouldn't help with the other avenues of attack.

    Except in Yahoo...that's a 'premium' feature...which means $$$ to get email client access. Not sure about Gmail or other webmail providers.

    Oh, how useful. GMail and Hotmail, at least, allow POP/IMAP access - that's how I use both. I was assuming Yahoo did, to the extent that I thought, as my ISP uses yahoo as its mail provider and I have POP access to that - presumably a different package from the regular free Yahoo.

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  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001
    edited December 1969

    mjc1016 said:
    Using an email client (Thunderbird, Windows Live Mail etc) rather than the web interface may help you against cross-site vulnerabilities, since you aren't logged in to the website when checking your mail, but it wouldn't help with the other avenues of attack.

    Except in Yahoo...that's a 'premium' feature...which means $$$ to get email client access. Not sure about Gmail or other webmail providers.

    Oh, how useful. GMail and Hotmail, at least, allow POP/IMAP access - that's how I use both. I was assuming Yahoo did, to the extent that I thought, as my ISP uses yahoo as its mail provider and I have POP access to that - presumably a different package from the regular free Yahoo.

    They used to...but then quit. Yeah, they do that ISP thing a lot...I think that ISPs pay them for that privilege, but not so much that it costs more than running their own email servers. It's not expensive, but still 'extra'. $19.99/year for Mail Plus...POP access and more...

  • SpitSpit Posts: 2,342
    edited December 1969

    Yahoo! IS my ISP and hosts my website. My email account(s) are fully accessible via POP/IMAP and I access them through Windows Live Mail but don't use the 'live' part. In fact I haven't used my website in almost three years now. Sheesh. It's been that long? All I have to do is update Wordpress and I just haven't gotten around to it. I blame DAZ ;-)

  • ThatGuyThatGuy Posts: 794
    edited December 1969

    this happened to my msn account not too long ago. it sent out emails to all people on my contact list and for which I had saved my "sent" emails. Short story told, I deleted all my contacts and all messages in my "sent" box.

  • KatteyKattey Posts: 2,899
    edited December 1969

    this happened to my msn account not too long ago. it sent out emails to all people on my contact list and for which I had saved my "sent" emails. Short story told, I deleted all my contacts and all messages in my "sent" box.

    Oh, this might be the pattern of how the spam was sent, I emptied my Sent folder too, although I moved them into a different folder - don't know if it helps
  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001
    edited December 1969

    Spit said:
    Yahoo! IS my ISP and hosts my website. My email account(s) are fully accessible via POP/IMAP and I access them through Windows Live Mail but don't use the 'live' part. In fact I haven't used my website in almost three years now. Sheesh. It's been that long? All I have to do is update Wordpress and I just haven't gotten around to it. I blame DAZ ;-)

    Yeah, those of us who have other ISPs need to pay $20 for POP access...

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