EMAIL ALERT WE HAVE BEEN ATTACKED! !!!!

[Ken Herrick]

Something has gotten into members email accounts and is spreading.

BEWARE if you receive an email which consists of a "link"
DO NOT OPEN IT. DELETE IT or we could all end up spreading it to all of our contacts.

More about this in "off topic".

[Ben]

I got one of these, and like an idiot clicked it, on my mobile (don't know how vulerable that is, or even how to tell/fix it). If anyone starts recieving odd emails from me - let me know.

Ben

[Ken Herrick]

As I stated in a reply to a post in "off topic", I received an email from another tubenet member last night. Unfortunately, as is extremely easy to do on my touch screen phone, I opened the link which was the emails contents. I immediatly deleted the emailand notified the supposed sender.

Today I saw he had made a post in off topic about this. Another tubenet member had replied that he had teceived one of these emails from me. VERY unlikely as I don't have him as a contact or any correspondence betwern us.

The one I received came thru my ISP - not the tubenet email or PM facilities. It looks like this worm reads address books and uses a newly gleaned address for ongoing mailings which could make it harder to trace. That sort oh behaviour could lead to some serious misunderstandings.

I just thought it a good idea to alert other Tubenet "members" that their personal, "email accounts" might be vulnerable.
Hope that clarifies things for you, Wade.

Incidently, I think the original War pf the Worlds" movie was MUCH better than the new one!

[Lectron]

It's the cylons

[Nick Lukefahr]

I think email hackers have ways of making an email say that it is from a certain person and email address when it's really not.

[gwwilk]

I think email hackers have ways of making an email say that it is from a certain person and email address when it's really not.

This has been a problem for many years now. I block these messages from 'myself' with no ill effects on my email in Outlook or Thunderbird.

[Dan Schultz]

I think email hackers have ways of making an email say that it is from a certain person and email address when it's really not.

This has been a problem for many years now. I block these messages from 'myself' with no ill effects on my email in Outlook or Thunderbird.

Ditto. The rule we always give at work (where I'm an IT drone) is to not click on any link in any email that seems "unusual" in any way, even if you think you know the source. Even with all of the spam and malware filters out there stuff gets through, and you have to learn to go by your gut. One tip-off is when the sender name (e.g. Joe Friday) and the sender email address (e.g. sandra1234 at hotchix.com) don't correspond. Another is an email where the only thing in the body is a link to a site you don't know.

Do a little surfing on the topic of avoiding spam and malware. You'll turn up some good tip sheets like this one.

That being said.... I wouldn't even click on the link you sent!

[gwwilk]

That being said.... I wouldn't even click on the link you sent!

If there's any question at all about a link, before clicking on it hovering over a link with your cursor in a modern browser will display the URL target of that link, generally at the very bottom of the window, so you can check its authenticity.