A Friendly Warning

CronosCronos Join Date: 2002-10-18 Member: 1542Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">Email Infiltrated</div> It turns out my email was hijacked recently to send virus laden attachments. I only found out due to the number of failed or refused send messages.

I've since changed the password on the account and all my forum/email accounts. I'm abandoning the hotmail address in favour of my gmail account.

If any of you have recieved any kind of unsolicited mail from me, DELETE WITHOUT PREJUDICE OR MERCY.

The address is cronoswraith@hotmail.com, if you did open the attachments that may have been sent along with the emails and they caused damage I am truly sorry, but it really clinched when I found a returned mail that arrived as I was busy working while the computer was OFF and considering failure of delivery notices are fairly fast, I'm pretty sure it's someone else hijacking my account rather then a worm.

Still, I'll be running a full system scan, virus AND adware to ensure that the trouble isnt on my end and more towards having the same password for a little bit too long.

Thank you for reading, and apologies in advance if anything untoward has happened to you as a result of my negligence.
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  • [WHO]Them[WHO]Them You can call me Dave Join Date: 2002-12-11 Member: 10593Members, Constellation
    Dude, your account wasn't hijacked.

    The absolute most common method of spreading email viruses is for the virus to take every address on someone's contact list (one of your friends) and send an email to every single one of them from a spoofed address of other people on the list.
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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    Ergo, your friend's email was hijacked. Start taking names.
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  • [WHO]Them[WHO]Them You can call me Dave Join Date: 2002-12-11 Member: 10593Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin-TychoCelchuuu+Aug 29 2004, 07:01 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (TychoCelchuuu @ Aug 29 2004, 07:01 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Ergo, your friend's email was hijacked. Start taking names. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    And by hijacked, he means one of your friends has one of these virii and probably doesn't use web based email. So they may or may not even know that they're sending this crap out.
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  • RueRue Join Date: 2002-10-21 Member: 1564Members
    I got an e-mail from someone else on the board who had written a crawler for e-mail addys.

    It said something like
    <!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->
    Dear Rue,

    I have noticed your great insight on the www.natural-selection.org forums[...]

    Send me money and I will give you more money back honest
    <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    I'm not going to say who it was beause its a relitivly well known person here <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • EpidemicEpidemic Dark Force Gorge Join Date: 2003-06-29 Member: 17781Members
    lol <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • taboofirestaboofires Join Date: 2002-11-24 Member: 9853Members
    If you get worm-laden spam from somebody you know, don't automatically assume they are the click-happy culpret. A bunch of those worms also spoof the sender, telling Jane that Bob sent it, and Bob that Jane sent it, and Billy still has no idea he's infected.
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  • Nil_IQNil_IQ Join Date: 2003-04-15 Member: 15520Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-taboofires+Aug 29 2004, 12:00 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (taboofires @ Aug 29 2004, 12:00 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> If you get worm-laden spam from somebody you know, don't automatically assume they are the click-happy culpret. A bunch of those worms also spoof the sender, telling Jane that Bob sent it, and Bob that Jane sent it, and Billy still has no idea he's infected. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    OH NO! NOT BILLY!
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  • RueRue Join Date: 2002-10-21 Member: 1564Members
    When I pmed him on the forum he told me that he done it <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • Dorian_GrayDorian_Gray Join Date: 2004-02-15 Member: 26581Members, Constellation
    Yeah its amazing how many people email me saying "OMGZOR YOU GATS T3H VIRUSZ0RZ!!!111oneleven" even when I don't. I try to explain that viruses spoof the sender, they say its not possible, and then I send them an email from their own account and they shut up <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • GlissGliss Join Date: 2003-03-23 Member: 14800Members, Constellation, NS2 Map Tester
    <!--QuoteBegin-Rue+Aug 29 2004, 06:42 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Rue @ Aug 29 2004, 06:42 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I got an e-mail from someone else on the board who had written a crawler for e-mail addys.

    It said something like
    <!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->
    Dear Rue,

    I have noticed your great insight on the www.natural-selection.org forums[...]

    Send me money and I will give you more money back honest
    <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    I'm not going to say who it was beause its a relitivly well known person here <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    WHO WAS IT !!!!
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  • littlewildlittlewild Join Date: 2002-11-20 Member: 9467Members
    Er, I think you definition of "hijacked" email address isn't exactly correct.

    Any decent SMTP mail server program will allow you to send emails originating from any arbitary email adress. Don't be surprised if you receive an email from admin@natural-selection.org because any one who knows how to run a mass mailer program would probably know how to spoof an email address.

    An account is hijacked when the attacker gains access to your mailbox and is able to read the emails that are stored in your account.
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  • CronosCronos Join Date: 2002-10-18 Member: 1542Members
    Thats what I thought was happening but the replies thus far have eased my paranoia somewhat.

    Thanks for the info, but I'm still ditching the account. At the very least it gave me an excuse to change all my passwords, something thats been 4 years overdue <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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