Doug
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I just received an E-Mail from my father that he did not send. Its a link to somones blog which then shoots off to a medical supplies site registered in Canada.
Now it was sent from his Yahoo account to all the contacts he had saved in his Yahoo account. Is this likely to be from a virus/spyware on the computer or the account has been compormised and needs it's password changing etc?
Thanks in advance.
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Tom G
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I had this problem once... It sent everyone in my emailing list some blog site. I only cottoned on when the email was returned to me saying it was unable to send 
I just changed my password, the next day i had to the numbers/letters in a pic then confirm them thing, so i presume they (bot) tried to log back in and tried multiple times....Never the less it hasn't happened since
[Edited on 07-06-2010 by Tom G]
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Doug
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Seriously how has that helped?
Go back to cheating on CoD. It's all your (half)good at 
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Tom G
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quote:
Originally posted by Doug
Seriously how has that helped?
Wow! What a prick....
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Doug
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quote:
Originally posted by Tom G
quote:
Originally posted by Doug
Seriously how has that helped?
Wow! What a prick....
Nice Edit
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Tom G
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I don't know what your on about Douglas?
Anyway, just get him to change his password and it shouldn't be a problem....
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ed
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I could send an e-mail pretending to be from anyone in the world from any domain name, it's very easy. Your fathers e-mail account was not hacked.
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John
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Something was probably hacked/key logged somewhere down the line if it was sent to his address book though.
Doug, do you not work in computer forensics for the police 
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Doug
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John, how do you know that?
My thought is that he has signed up to a forum somewhere using the e-mail address and the password he chose for the forum was the same as his email.
The forum gets hacked.
Details are used successfully to compromise his e-mail account.
I just wondered if this was typically a result of a virus or a 'hack'. Clearly seems to be a 'hack' type.
Thanks for the help guys
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PaulW
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quote:
Originally posted by ed
I could send an e-mail pretending to be from anyone in the world from any domain name, it's very easy. Your fathers e-mail account was not hacked.
Only useful if the domain your spoofing and the mailserver you are sending the mail to doesn't utilise something like domainkeys or SPF records
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