Thanks for the heads up, Jim. It would be useful to know the computer type and operating system of the victims of such hijacking. I use a Mac with OS Leopard and am wondering what defensive software to get to protect my addressbook + other stuff. Sent from my iPad John Ferman Email in header On Jan 9, 2012, at 2:00 AM, gen-newbie-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2012 14:39:26 -0500 > From: JIM HOPE <jehope1@rogers.com> > Subject: [GN] hijacked address book > To: Gen-Newbie@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <4F09F0EE.3070501@rogers.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Hey folks should you get a strange email from me, I did not send it. I > have just had my address book hijacked and before I knew it hundreds of > strange messages had been sent out. Hopefully no one opens them or > clicks on the URL contained in them. > All seems to be well now, but, I have had to change all my > passwords on email and have run Malwarebytes and found one offending > file that I have deleted now and the computer is clear. This is the > first time I have ever had this happen so be aware should it happen to > you, change the passwords for your email and run both a virus and > malware scan to be safe. > -- > * Jim Hope*

Although most attacks are on Windows machines Mac is slowly getting problems. I am using Windows machines with XP, Vista and Win7 OS and it was the XP machine that showed up with problem file that had been languishing in a folder for possibly two years. It was my first hijacking and I hope the last. * Jim Hope* On 09/01/2012 11:16 AM, John Ferman wrote: > Thanks for the heads up, Jim. It would be useful to know the computer type and operating system of the victims of such hijacking. I use a Mac with OS Leopard and am wondering what defensive software to get to protect my addressbook + other stuff. > > Sent from my iPad > John Ferman > Email in header > > On Jan 9, 2012, at 2:00 AM, gen-newbie-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > >> Message: 1 >> Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2012 14:39:26 -0500 >> From: JIM HOPE<jehope1@rogers.com> >> Subject: [GN] hijacked address book >> To: Gen-Newbie@rootsweb.com >> Message-ID:<4F09F0EE.3070501@rogers.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed >> >> Hey folks should you get a strange email from me, I did not send it. I >> have just had my address book hijacked and before I knew it hundreds of >> strange messages had been sent out. Hopefully no one opens them or >> clicks on the URL contained in them. >> All seems to be well now, but, I have had to change all my >> passwords on email and have run Malwarebytes and found one offending >> file that I have deleted now and the computer is clear. This is the >> first time I have ever had this happen so be aware should it happen to >> you, change the passwords for your email and run both a virus and >> malware scan to be safe. >> -- >> * Jim Hope* > > ******************** > > Gen-Newbie's website: > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~newbie/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GEN-NEWBIE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >