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I am infected!
Apr. 19th, 2010 07:54 pmEarlier this afternoon, I was working on my neighbor's removable hard drive. He couldn't get it to mount on his system. But it mounted fine on my system. I was able to see the files.
At around 5:30pm, it appears that several spam messages were sent from my account to everyone in my address book. The message contained a weblink with no explanation, and my signature.
I have since concluded that one of the following three scenarios happened: 1) My Gmail account was compromised and someone sent messages from it. 2) I've been spoofed. 3) I picked up a Trojan Horse virus just by mounting my neighbor's hard drive.
I have since changed my account password and am running both an AVG scan and an Ad-Aware scan on my system to scrub it down. I'm also considering MalwareBytes and SuperAntiSpyware scans as well. In the meantime, delete the message that was sent by me at around 5:30pm, or ignore the posted link in the message.
I apologize for the inconvenience.
At around 5:30pm, it appears that several spam messages were sent from my account to everyone in my address book. The message contained a weblink with no explanation, and my signature.
I have since concluded that one of the following three scenarios happened: 1) My Gmail account was compromised and someone sent messages from it. 2) I've been spoofed. 3) I picked up a Trojan Horse virus just by mounting my neighbor's hard drive.
I have since changed my account password and am running both an AVG scan and an Ad-Aware scan on my system to scrub it down. I'm also considering MalwareBytes and SuperAntiSpyware scans as well. In the meantime, delete the message that was sent by me at around 5:30pm, or ignore the posted link in the message.
I apologize for the inconvenience.
