Thanks for that info Les, I did not know that as I had never had this experience. * Jim Hope* On 09/01/2012 12:47 PM, Les Hardy wrote: > Jim, changing all your passwords was the right thing to do, and hopefully, that will fix it. > > But, there seems to be some misunderstanding about email account highjacking. > > Email account highjacking is usually done at the mail server account. Not on your computer. > The operating system has nothing to do with it. > > Having said that, it is of course possible for windows users to get a virus that can harvest and use their address book. > > On the Mac thing. > As far as I am aware, their is no known Mac or Linux virus that can access an address book. > Also, I understand the Mac OSX Snow Leopard and Lion now have anti-malware protection built in. > > > Les Hardy > > > > On 08/01/12 19:39, JIM HOPE wrote: >> 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. > ******************** > > 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 >