"Work At Home" Emails Spamming Contacts

Discussion in 'Malware Help - MG (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by J8son, Jan 12, 2012.

  1. J8son

    J8son Corporal

    I've had several people reply to emails that appear to be sent from my Yahoo Mail address, however, I've not used that address in several months (and these emails were sent in the last few days). However, when I check my "Sent" box of my Yahoo Mail and Outlook, none of these emails appear to have been sent from those locations.

    All the emails give a message and link similar to this:

    I'm running BitDefender real-time protection and my IE is always Sandboxed (using SandBoxie) so I don't see how this could be coming from my current home desktop.

    Is this something that could be coming from another source? I've already taken the precaution of removing all the contacts from my Yahoo address book to HOPEFULLY stop it from spamming these people any further.

    Any thoughts?
     
  2. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    Likely just involving your Yahoo email account. You have probably taken the correct steps to avoid future spamming, but you should also go in and clean out the account. Use a different computer to be on the safe side to change the account password.
     
  3. J8son

    J8son Corporal

    UPDATE:

    Full system scans done with:

    MalwareBytes
    SuperAntiSpyware
    Spybot
    Bitdefender (Deep System Scan)


    Results - Number of infected files = 0

    So that rules out anything on my system.

    How could this work without having infected my desktop and physically having access to my account information. IE: how could it be doing this remotely?
     
  4. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    Either someone hacked your account or you got an email that was a bot and started spamming your contacts.
     
  5. J8son

    J8son Corporal

    A bot huh? So how would that work? I received the spam in my Inbox, then from there it scanned my contacts and resent the emails?
     
  6. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    Yes. That would be the most likely reason.
     

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