So, I was coming home from work at about 7:10, because, well, there's was a nice little party to congratulate a friend who just finished his Ph. D. in physics. We drank some wine, champagne, ate some cheese... before I head to my home where SWMBO was waiting for me. I arrive at 8:00, we eat and then we listened to a little bit of TV and then I logged on my gmail account.
Well, I had about ten e-mails saying to me that the emails I sent at 7:20 couldn't be sent to some e-mail address. Wait... the emails I sent at 7:20? I wasn't even before a computer at 7:20.
So yeah, a little guy ( Albanie (79.106.109.77) ) spammed my friends using my gmail account. A kind of non-sense URL all finishing by .co.cc (with a bizzarre and different name for every email sent). Oh, my friends? Well, they'll understand.
Wait... no, no, my entire ******* contact list, which, on gmail, is updated automatically with every ingoing email. And I have this email address for some time now (7 years). Which means I have a lot of contact. And that means the boss, and ex-bosses. And friends, ex-friends, some old woman at the university I mailed to have some informations, some student I was a Teaching Assistant too (who emailed me to have some help), my mother, brother and sister, uncles, aunts, etc.
Yeah, I had a real fun to write-back to everyone "Hey, don't read my last email, I fall prey to some hacker-spammer blablabla". And this also has the problem that old friend emails me back "Heh! Long time no see! I'm sorry we don't talk much, what happens with you?". From some friends, that's nice. From some other, well, I didn't recontact them for a reason.
I just don't understand how it happened. I changed my password, my secret question, and I'm performing a full system scan using MSE. Will follow with Ad-aware and maybe AVG to see if the problem is caused by a known malware.
DIE, ******* spammer. JUST ******* DIE ***** ** ****.
Well, I had about ten e-mails saying to me that the emails I sent at 7:20 couldn't be sent to some e-mail address. Wait... the emails I sent at 7:20? I wasn't even before a computer at 7:20.
So yeah, a little guy ( Albanie (79.106.109.77) ) spammed my friends using my gmail account. A kind of non-sense URL all finishing by .co.cc (with a bizzarre and different name for every email sent). Oh, my friends? Well, they'll understand.
Wait... no, no, my entire ******* contact list, which, on gmail, is updated automatically with every ingoing email. And I have this email address for some time now (7 years). Which means I have a lot of contact. And that means the boss, and ex-bosses. And friends, ex-friends, some old woman at the university I mailed to have some informations, some student I was a Teaching Assistant too (who emailed me to have some help), my mother, brother and sister, uncles, aunts, etc.
Yeah, I had a real fun to write-back to everyone "Hey, don't read my last email, I fall prey to some hacker-spammer blablabla". And this also has the problem that old friend emails me back "Heh! Long time no see! I'm sorry we don't talk much, what happens with you?". From some friends, that's nice. From some other, well, I didn't recontact them for a reason.
I just don't understand how it happened. I changed my password, my secret question, and I'm performing a full system scan using MSE. Will follow with Ad-aware and maybe AVG to see if the problem is caused by a known malware.
DIE, ******* spammer. JUST ******* DIE ***** ** ****.