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    • Reprotected on Sun 27 Sep 2009
    • 06:54:16 PM UTC

    Emails from friends

    I always wonder what's going on but how are people from my contacts (or have me on my contacts) sending me scam links to fraudulent websites? Recently, even my sister sent me one of those, I wanna know if it is from bots, viruses or account hackers.

    Retired.

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    • evilfantasy on Mon 28 Sep 2009
    • 05:06:20 AM UTC

    Compromised

    Sounds like either you or one of your contacts email account has been compromised. You should change your email password from a known clean computer and report it to whatever service it happened on so they don't think it's you who might be sending out thousands of other emails. If it's a bot then that's a real possibility.

    This happened to my Yahoo email a few weeks back. Luckily I don't trust Yahoo anyway and just use it for untrustworthy websites. I reported it but only got a canned reply from them. Figures...
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    • Athlonite on Mon 28 Sep 2009
    • 05:15:43 AM UTC

    Hey Reprotected !!

    Why don't you give this little tool a try : RuBotted from Trend Micro. It's free :
    http://free.antivirus.com/rubotted/

    Athlonite.

    Your help is always needed.
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      • Reprotected on Tue 29 Sep 2009
      • 11:35:40 AM UTC

      Have it

      I have it on my computer, but not on my sister's. Maybe I should put it on her's.

      Just MyWOT and SpywareBlaster, I guess... Found a malicious or fraudulent website? Rate it at WOT ASAP! Found a game hacker? Report it to the game's anti-cheat team! Infected with a virus? Delete it with an antivirus =P
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      • paul g on Wed 30 Sep 2009
      • 01:38:23 PM UTC

      RuBotted from Trend Micro. It's free!

      Hi, Athlonite,Thanks for posting this free tool its just the type of think ive been looking
      for..
      cheers............p................

      If You Dont Ask You Will Never Know..
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    • Havends on Fri 02 Oct 2009
    • 01:23:01 PM UTC

    Compromised

    Just as it was mentioned in the first reply, it looks like your account has been compromised. There are so many scam sites in the internet which force the normal users into sharing their personal information and passwords.

    Ask your friends and sister to change their account password and security question. :)
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