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tony286 · 12-06-2011, 08:13 AM

A friend gives me a heads up one of my wifes gmail addreses sent him two emails with a link to goes to god only knows. So I check the sent of that email and it sent out a shit load of them but not to her whole address book around midnight. Now the weird thing is I checked the ip activity on gmail and it shows nothing weird. Im running malware scan now. Any thoughts?

Wizzo · 12-06-2011, 08:18 AM

Change the password from "password"...

tony286 · 12-06-2011, 08:19 AM

The computer was shut off when this happened, It happened around 12:47 am and it had been off for a couple of hours.

stocktrader23 · 12-06-2011, 08:19 AM

It has nothing to do with malware most likely. Just change your (edit

PASSWORD and you should be cool.

tony286 · 12-06-2011, 08:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Wizzo

Change the password from "password"...

actually it was changed three months ago and it was on the complex side.

stocktrader23 · 12-06-2011, 08:21 AM

99.9% chance someone got your password from some other list they bought / stole / hacked online. Once they find out that you were [email protected] with a pass of 12121212 on pornworld.com they try those strings on yahoo, gmail, facebook, myspace, twitter, etc.

tony286 · 12-06-2011, 08:22 AM

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Originally Posted by stocktrader23

It has nothing to do with malware most likely. Just change your email address and you should be cool.

Change the gmail address? Changing the password wouldnt be enough but then there was no weird ip activity and the system was off.

stocktrader23 · 12-06-2011, 08:23 AM

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Originally Posted by tony286

actually it was changed three months ago and it was on the complex side.

Would you use the same password ANYWHERE? Adult membership, adult affiliate program, free tube site or anything mainstream at all?

stocktrader23 · 12-06-2011, 08:23 AM

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Originally Posted by tony286

Change the gmail address? Changing the password wouldnt be enough but then there was no weird ip activity and the system was off.

Sorry dude, change the password. Fuck I need to wake up.

tony286 · 12-06-2011, 08:25 AM

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Originally Posted by stocktrader23

99.9% chance someone got your password from some other list they bought / stole / hacked online. Once they find out that you were [email protected] with a pass of 12121212 on pornworld.com they try those strings on yahoo, gmail, facebook, myspace, twitter, etc.

but wouldnt it show a different ip in gmail for activity? THe reason I bring this up it happened once to my mom and it showed an ip from china, this time it shows no strange ip's

tony286 · 12-06-2011, 08:25 AM

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Originally Posted by stocktrader23

Sorry dude, change the password. Fuck I need to wake up.

thank you for your help

Fenris Wolf · 12-06-2011, 08:30 AM

I remember when this happened to me. All my business contacts, my lawyer, cpa, et-cetera received an email from me on how to increase their penis size. It was the first and only time I ever logged in on a public wifi. Lesson learned.

stocktrader23 · 12-06-2011, 08:31 AM

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Originally Posted by tony286

but wouldnt it show a different ip in gmail for activity? THe reason I bring this up it happened once to my mom and it showed an ip from china, this time it shows no strange ip's

If they actually logged into Gmail it should. It's possible there is a script out there that lets one use your Gmail credentials to mail from your account without logging in or even a simpler explanation. I'm no pro by far, I've just read about this stuff.

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Originally Posted by tony286

thank you for your help

No problem. I'd keep an eye on the sent folder but I'd be surprised if it keeps happening. The emails that got sent were probably something like "Hey (friends name), I tried this new diet and it really worked. I figured you might want to read about it."

There is a chance you have something on your end but that wouldn't explain the no IP logged in. You said the computer was offline when the email was sent, does it show your IP logged in at that time or just nothing? Should show your IP if they just took over your computer.

tony286 · 12-06-2011, 08:42 AM

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Originally Posted by stocktrader23

If they actually logged into Gmail it should. It's possible there is a script out there that lets one use your Gmail credentials to mail from your account without logging in or even a simpler explanation. I'm no pro by far, I've just read about this stuff.

No problem. I'd keep an eye on the sent folder but I'd be surprised if it keeps happening. The emails that got sent were probably something like "Hey (friends name), I tried this new diet and it really worked. I figured you might want to read about it."

There is a chance you have something on your end but that wouldn't explain the no IP logged in. You said the computer was offline when the email was sent, does it show your IP logged in at that time or just nothing? Should show your IP if they just took over your computer.

I found it a CA ip in gmail at 11pm last night . Changed the password

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