Email Scam Help

[SoCal Blur]

The virus trojan thing should not be a problem. Regular scans and such show no virus stuff going on.

Running MS Security Essentials on two and McAffe on the Win8 box until the free period expires.

I always considered McAffee a virus in its own right. You should be able to look at the header info on the email and see the IP address where it was sent from. You can map it and see the general area where that IP address is located.

 

[Twobrothersbusa]

I've used it before.

Charlie, Malwarebytes is GOOD STUFF and FREE......I've cleaned many a machine (and, apparently, Tuf's about 5 minutes ago) with it...

 

[dadofthree]

I don't necessarily think that your email account has been 'hacked'. Rather, you have (or had) something on your machine that sent your address book to a spammer...they are using that information to send emails out.

Run your antivirus software to scan your machine. Also, you can download Malwarebytes Anti-Malware (free) and run it to scan for nasties...

I run this and AVG

 

[Turbo-Torch]

One of my sisters has been sending out porn and pill sites to everyone (including me) in her contacts lists. At first it was funny telling her to keep her perversions to herself...especially since she's a bit on the religious side.
Now it's annoying.
Checking headers, it really appears to be coming from her account at sbcglobal.
She swears nothing comes up on various virus scans. I thought someone had her password, but if she doesn't turn her computer on for a week, nobody seems to get them. ???

 

[skydivr]

And a HUGE announcement about a new JAVA zero-day threat came out yesterday. The DoD had told all military users to DISABLE java....