Email Alert

[HwitVlf]

Just a heads up that there seems to be a virus-email bouncing around the SoM community. The viral emails have only a link which takes you to a Russian site that does bad things to your PC.

I first got several viral emails from Johnnnypark's email address, but since have gotten them from a couple other members of the forum here so it may have spread. Last viral-email was from Tom's email address and I could see a copy was sent to Verdite as well.

[Guyra]

Thanks for the heads up! ^^

[dmpdesign]

I got some several weeks ago from Madison Lastrega's and a few from folks that were not on this forum, one from a guy at work and one from a sony web forum i had been at a while back, not sure where its coming from.

[Verdite]

Yeah, Joe stop sending me porn links. ‎ 

[HwitVlf]

My wife's email account recently sent out spam emails (identical to the ones I've been receiving from Joe and Johnnypark) to people on her Yahoo contact list. My first thought was a virus but after checking into the matter further, it looks like her Yahoo account had got hacked (password stolen). ‎  After researching the symptoms it seems a group of hackers has been running a brute force (trying every possible password randomly) attack against yahoo mail and facebook accounts.

Her yahoo mail showed a login from a Polish and Brazilian IP around the time it sent out the spam. ‎  The emails usually have a blank or simple subject line (Re:, Hey, etc) and contain a single link to a "Buy Viagra" site or similar. The linked site sometimes tries to run malicious script when visited too.

If you use yahoo/facebook, it might might be a good idea to change your passwords to something more complicated that you don't use anywhere else.