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Is your email account sending out emails that you did not initiate?
There is currently a virus going around that affects Hotmail, MSN, Gmail and Yahoo email accounts. Emails are being sent to everyone in the contacts or address book automatically. . The email has no subject line but a link in the body. It does not say anything else. It is a virus, so don’t click on the link. Just delete it. If you click on the link it takes you to a website that infects you. Many times it is a pharmacy in Washington State. The solution is to change your password on your email account so the virus cannot access your account and send the spam out.
Make it a good password. It should have at least 8 characters which include a capital letter and a number in the 8 characters or more. After that, update your antivirus program and do a full scan to ensure it is clean. Run any updates from windows. This virus appears to be on the servers of Hotmail, Gmail, MSN and Yahoo so your computer should be clean. If after doing all of this, you still have the virus sending out emails automatically you might consider getting a new email address.
Call us for help in verifying your computer is clean. We do virus removal and repair work quickly and guarantee our work. Call today. 801.822-2086
From the Deseret News November 17th, 2010 – An e-mail virus going around has gotten people concerned about how their computers are behaving, and experts say there are ways to combat the problem.
Hundreds, if not hundreds of thousands, of people have experienced it: strange e-mails coming from not only friends, but long-lost acquaintances, containing only an unexplained link and no subject line. Not just clicking on the link, but opening the e-mail can send messages out to everyone in the recipients’ entire address book.
“It’s probably a new variation of, ‘Hey, they’ve blocked this, this and this. Oh, that’s open. We’ll attack that.’ That’s really the cat-and-mouse game,” Hanline said.
It’s tricky to tell if a computer has the virus, he said. Spammers can get names from someone else’s contact list and then send out e-mails that appear to be from that person, even though that computer isn’t infected.
Running more than one anti-virus system is advised, as various companies can identify certain attacks.
However, if a computer already has the virus and it is detected by the software, getting a new e-mail account is the next step. It is also advisable to inform anyone who might have received the e-mails to not open the link, thereby stopping the virus in its tracks.
Experts say the virus, or ones like it, are right now affecting one out of four computers. They say the virus is likely an attempt to take over a computer, making it into what’s known as a “botnet,” a computer that can be controlled remotely by someone else. At that point, the remote controller could likely have access to anything on the hard drive.
Contributing: Sarah Dallof