On 5/17/09, Simon Mbuthia <
simon.mbuthia@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I just received this message below from two different friends, and looking
> at the To: field, the message seems to have been sent to everybody; which
> probably means that spammers somehow obtained passwords to these users'
> email accounts and sent the advert to all contacts in the users' address
> books. This appears to be worm behaviour to me. Now the question that I wish
> to ask is... how on earth did these spammers get these passwords? Phishing?
>
> Anyone heard of the story behind this email? It's on several sites on the
> net, but all that people are saying is to change your password and use a
> strong password etc. but my guess is that all this is an unconfirmed
> solution, though I believe it could work. But the problem is not that
> someone can send an email from my account without my consent, but that
> he/she can get my password. That's what worries me.
>
> So, anybody got any ideas on how this could have happened?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Me.
>
> 2009/4/28 <
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>
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