Anybody had this email or Similar!

amo · Post by **amo** » 29 Jul 2006, 00:19

Hi all,
Been working on website and A320 look ie 3d/sun glare on tail etc and revising all previous A320's.
Finished bmi A320 :
http://www.fantasyf1art.pwp.blueyonder. ... 320bmi.htm
Got this email and removed my email from website said it was from blueyonder but didn't open attachment. Anybody had anything like this:

Dear user [email protected],
Your email account has been used to send a huge amount of junk e-mail during the last week. Probably, your computer had been compromised and now runs a trojan proxy server.
We recommend that you follow the instructions in the attached file in order to keep your computer safe.

Thanks
amo

Post by **Garry Russell** » 29 Jul 2006, 00:24

Hi Amo

About eighteen months ago Suddenly my computer went haywire and started making so many peeps so close together it was almost continuous.

I couldn't stop it so physically puller the net wire out.

I had just sent over eight hundred emails in Russian.

I closed the email address and took ages running anti spyware and virus stuff to clean it up.

I never received any notification that I was aware of but my sent box was stuffed.

Garry

amo · Post by **amo** » 29 Jul 2006, 00:30

Thanks Garry,
I run anti virus, spam etc every 2 or 3 days.
Only one email and that was from Japan!
Will keep an eye out but beware everyone.
Cheers
amo

Post by **Garry Russell** » 29 Jul 2006, 00:43

That was a particulary nasty one and I had had problems with viruses.

I got it clean but it can happen, supprising how many hijack attempts get reported.

No idea what the mails were about but I guess it wasn't that legal!!

Garry

speedbird591 · Post by **speedbird591** » 29 Jul 2006, 08:43

I would suspect that this email is a bold scam and an attempt to download a trojan which is in the attachment. I would delete it and run a system scam just to make doubly sure there is nothing on your machine. I've had a couple of similar ones in recent weeks.

Ian