Yesterday I got a suspicious email from a person I haven't even spoken to in about five years. MS Office Outlook (I use a PC) also allows viewing a message prior to actually opening it. Since I saw nothing in the subject line of the suspicious email, and since it seemed to be an effort just like you described, I simply deleted it. Kim -----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Patrick Wiggins Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2011 4:33 PM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Computer virus question FYI, right after I sent my message they tried again. They are persistent. You'd think that after one rejection message they'd go play elsewhere. Now they've received two rejections (they must be beginning to feel like me on date night. <g>) patrick On 19 Mar 2011, at 16:27, Patrick Wiggins wrote:
Hi list people,
Early this morning some ne'er-do-well hacked into one of our list member's email address book and used the member's computer to broadcast a message that went to a bunch of people and to the UA list.
It appears the message contained a link to a site in Germany (as evidenced by the ".de" in the URL).
I've no idea where that site went to as I did not click on it. Fortunately since the message bore no subject and was addressed to so many addresses the list software flagged the post as suspicious so it never got posted to the list itself.
I alerted the list member to the situation and he responded asking what he should do now.
Since this has now happened to at least two folks on UA I thought I'd post about the situation here and ask those more computer-literate than I:
1) How does one keep one's address book from being hacked in the first place?
and
2) What should one do after such a hack occurs?
Also
3) On Macs one can safely see what's in an email without actually opening it by making a text-only copy (Apple key-Shift-S). How does one do the same thing with a Windows machine?
Ideas?
Thanks,
patrick _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com
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