Guest guest Posted April 19, 2005 Report Share Posted April 19, 2005 I just found out that my email is being hijacked. This is really weird. I thought things were just a bit slow everywhere but today I went to check my outlook express addy (it's the one I use for college) just to see what was what and found over a thousand emails that were being delivered there from all my lists and private mail as well. From as far back as early MARCH! I think it happens when I go off line cuz when I'm online mail seems to be coming here but but but! Anyone got any clues as to what I can do about this? I've not heard of this sort of thing happening before. Just plain weird. I'm now wondering if this is happening with my out going mail too cuz I've sent notes out and not received replies. >WHINE< Oh MAN! Cheers! Kathleen Petrides The Woobey Queen The Warming Touch, Therapeutic Pillows http://www.woobeyworld.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 20, 2005 Report Share Posted April 20, 2005 Kathleen, I think you need to contact your ISP & ask themabout it -- at our office we had a similar thing but our ISP alerted us after 83 msgs went out that were NOT generated from us -- you have been SPAMED!! & they are using your addy to SPAM others Lesley AZ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 20, 2005 Report Share Posted April 20, 2005 Hm. Not entirely sure what you mean by saying that you had email from all of your lists....you mean you had emails that were sent from the lists (like the digests here), or your email address was sending out random emails, or? There are viruses that will infiltrate networks and such and send emails with the virus attached that look like they have certain addresses, but they don't (my campus had one once...man was that annoying). Essentially what this means is that people will get emails that look like they're from you, and you'll get emails that look like they're from other people, but they're not. The email addresses in the " from " were faked. There are others that will hop into your computer and send emails using your email address. The first thing I would advise is not using Outlook. There are a lot of security holes in it; you might want to switch to something like Mozilla Thunderbird (and if you use Internet Explorer, to switch to something else like Mozilla Firefox or similar as well, for the same reason). You can get Thunderbird and Firefox at mozilla.org; there are other browsers out there as well. If this is on your college network, talk to whoever's in charge of Information Technology there and let them know what's going on, and see what you can do about it.... -Kat (who hasn't posted here in a very long time!!!) , " Woobey Queen " <WoobeyQueen@e...> wrote: > I just found out that my email is being hijacked. This is really weird. > > I thought things were just a bit slow everywhere but today I went to check > my outlook express addy (it's the one I use for college) just to see what > was what and found over a thousand emails that were being delivered there > from all my lists and private mail as well. From as far back as early > MARCH! I think it happens when I go off line cuz when I'm online mail seems > to be coming here but but but! > > Anyone got any clues as to what I can do about this? I've not heard of this > sort of thing happening before. Just plain weird. > > I'm now wondering if this is happening with my out going mail too cuz I've > sent notes out and not received replies. > > >WHINE< Oh MAN! > > Cheers! > Kathleen Petrides > The Woobey Queen > The Warming Touch, Therapeutic Pillows > http://www.woobeyworld.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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