kudzurunner
2019 posts
Nov 11, 2010
2:22 PM
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Friends:
My email account at AOL was indeed compromised this morning. I gather that a lot of you got emails peddling Viagra and the like. Not from me! It's those brutal, ruthless Chinese spammers! Or Russian spammers. Or some guy in a house outside Phoenix surrounded by guard dogs. :)
I've changed my password and the guys at the local computer shop have taken a look. The moment they discovered that I had a Mac with OSX, they said, "Your hardware isn't corrupted. It was just your email account. Change your password. You should be OK."
So that's what I've done. Let's hope I'm OK. Obviously if you receive another email from me at some point in a few days or a week or two and it looks like weird spam, don't open it!
Also, please do me a favor: check your spam filter now and then over the next several weeks. If you find an asgussow@aol.com email in there, mark it "not spam." I'd hate to lose touch with you just because some naughty person--or consortium, or conglomerate--did bad things to my email account.
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sorin
196 posts
Nov 11, 2010
3:14 PM
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By the way they operate this guys are not spammers , they are a different breed "hackers" they wanna take control of your computer.Be very careful.
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Street Player Dude
3 posts
Nov 11, 2010
3:15 PM
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Thanks for the head's up!
Just checked my emails; looks like we're okay there.
For now...
Like those peeps got nothing better to do, eh?
So good luck! And all is peaceful again in Blues Harp Heaven! :)
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jbone
433 posts
Nov 11, 2010
3:24 PM
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but adam, that was the BEST price on viagra i've EVER SEEN! oh well....
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snakes
588 posts
Nov 11, 2010
3:25 PM
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Same thing happened to me a couple of weeks ago. The culprit invaded my msn account and spammed my entire address book with an embedded porn video that I think was really a virus when launched (got that from a friend I think tried to launch the video). The nature of the embedded video left a still photo that was humiliating to say the least. I can't say how violated I felt to get an email from my rabbi asking me if I really sent the email to him. Sheesh...
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snakes
589 posts
Nov 11, 2010
3:26 PM
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My computer wasn't even powered on when it happened so it had to be someone running an algorithm against my account. It stopped as soon as I changed my password.
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harpwrench
358 posts
Nov 11, 2010
3:28 PM
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So that wasn't really your sister? LOL
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snakes
590 posts
Nov 11, 2010
3:32 PM
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Actually it was supposed to be my girlfriend... Was more the age of my daughter.
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Leonid
79 posts
Nov 11, 2010
3:39 PM
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Sundollar sounds like my kind of place, thanks guys. I will be there every day. Much better than spending time with the geeks from work.
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kudzurunner
2021 posts
Nov 11, 2010
4:20 PM
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Whatever fiend wrested control of my AOL mail account this morning sent several hundred emails, as best I can tell, to the A through D's in my contact book. I've changed my password several times, and the new password is CIA-proof. Bastards!@&$!!
I got a second small round of rejected emails at around 5 PM--returned spam--which has me worried that some writhing fiendish force is, AS WE SPEAK, issuing email declarations from my account.
I am home in Oxford, Mississippi, everybody. I am NOT penniless and abroad, beseeching y'all to wire me money.
Please do me a favor, though: if anything very weird and Gussow related visits you via email, please let me know here, and/or at my Ole Miss account: agussow (at) olemiss (dot) edu
Thanks.
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tf10music
19 posts
Nov 11, 2010
4:39 PM
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kudzurunner: why don't you just use your university account for everything? They are really secure.
I don't even GET spam mail at my university email address.
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Leanground
122 posts
Nov 11, 2010
4:40 PM
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sorin
197 posts
Nov 11, 2010
5:51 PM
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Mr Gussow , the other thing you should be concerned is how did they manage to steal the password, because if they did it once they can do it again. The first email I have received from your hacked account is dated 11/03/10 , more than a week ago, try to remember what did you do that day or the day before that: did you access your email while you were connected to some unsecured wifi from a coffee shop ?
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nacoran
3216 posts
Nov 11, 2010
5:59 PM
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Be careful, Mac's don't get hacked only because they don't have as big a market share as PC's. It's not economical to develop hacking software, but it's not because they are innately more secure. In fact, last year at a timed hacker event the Macs went down first, then Linux, and finally the PC's. With their increased market share it's only a matter of time.
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kudzurunner
2023 posts
Nov 11, 2010
6:45 PM
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Sorin:
Thank you for that note about 11/03 being the first time you got an email from me. I need to reconstruct what I did. I'd like to hear from anybody else who got a spam email from "me" (asgussow@aol.com) on or around November 3rd.
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jawbone
352 posts
Nov 11, 2010
7:02 PM
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Not sure about this - but is it a good idea to change your password from a remote computer just in case yours has a keylogger on it??
This happened to me a few months ago, then they tried again a week later but I got it stopped.
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kudzurunner
2024 posts
Nov 11, 2010
7:18 PM
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ProtectMac found a bug: Trojan.JS.Selace-1. It has now been removed.
This is the first time in my 16 years of using Macs (and 16 years of using my AOL handle) that I've caught a virus.
If you are a computer geek or if you have experience with this particular bug, on a Mac, please tell me what you know--either in this thread or in an email to my Ole Miss account: agussow (at) olemiss (dot) edu
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Gwood420
258 posts
Nov 11, 2010
8:46 PM
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i got the mail today, and thats a first.. lucky for me i opened the link on my droid..
im not sure if its an omen or not.. i have been thinking of writing a song about viagra entitled "the little pill blues" thought it may be a fun song for even the froum to collaborate on.. now it may have even more meaning...something new to do around here anyway :) alas, that is for another thread..
anyway, sorry to hear about your luck adam, let this be a lesson to us all: use better passwords :)
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Diggsblues
596 posts
Nov 12, 2010
1:52 PM
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Wow a bug on Mac. I've never had one on my Mac.
Is it an Intel mac running past os10.5?
I keep protect mac on all the time.
I would google the bugs name.
My email address has been stolen many times.
You know when get returned email in Chinese.LOL
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HarmonicaMick
236 posts
Nov 12, 2010
3:47 PM
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Recently, my laptop got so messed up by some virus - at least that's what I thought it was - that I had to buy another one. My paranoia was such that I replaced the whole system: the external drive, the broadband dongle, the lot; even my iTunes library had to be re-downloaded, which, luckily, they let me do, under the circumstances.
I didn't want to risk transferring any shit that may have passed around my system, hence the total clear out. Financial security was my main concern, hence the huge degree of paranoia.
I'm not much of a one when it comes to being PC. I hate that kind of thought control. So, in my words, I think that the kind of scum who does this kind of spamming and theft of information should be lined up and shot. Seriously. They fleece people, some of whom they wreck in the process.
I think I left the forum creed in tact, though I'm not sure. Such opinions may cause disagreement.
Respectfully,
Mick
EDIT: Oh yeah, it was a P2P application that I - bloody stupidly - let through my firewall that caused the problem. Never again. Now, I use my home PC with the same kind of care that would be expected from an employer.
EDIT EDIT: this P2P thing was subscription based, so I thought it must be legit. It was only when it didn't work and I tried to cancel the subscription and got led all over the place that bells rang. Oh well, no fool like an old fool.
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nacoran
3222 posts
Nov 12, 2010
4:09 PM
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Mick, you are too easy on them. We should hold a convention of harmonica customizers and have them device the exact opposite of what they normally do... figure out the most diabolically dissonant tuning, unbendable reeds, sharp corners, rough, swollen tines, jagged reed plates, terrible plastic tasting, leaky harmonicas on the planet, and then we should strand each one of them on a deserted island with nothing to do except learn to play harmonica... and we should record their playing and spread it on the internet as a warning to all others what harmonica players do to people who cross them. :)
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sorin
199 posts
Nov 16, 2010
8:17 AM
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The way this guys operate is different ,they do not send emails from Adam's email address ( so it doesn't really matters that Adam cleaned up his Mac), they use the email addresses collected from his contacts in a different way. They assume that some of the people from his contacts know each other( which will make them more likely to click on a link that was sent by a friend) so they will send out emails (spoofing the sender name) hoping that some of them will stick , and eventually gain access to more emails and more computers. In the worst case scenario you end up with your identity stolen and credit taken in your name or empty bank accounts.
The email that I have received was not from Adam , was from somebody named David Moore ( a contact from Adam's email) , it's very easy for them to change the sender's name in an email.
Here's a scenario: they send emails to all of Adam's contacts using as sender Dennis Gruenling , now chances are that 20 people that visit this forum take or have taken lesson from him ,3 of them are gonna end up clicking on the wrong stuff , and depending on how bad the hackers are you can end up in all kind of problems , on top of the things that I mentioned before they can use your computer for attacks on other computers .
I am not trying to scare anybody , but just be very alert .
PS: my theory is that behind Adam's attack is some of the guys from OHA
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