Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Has My Computer Been Hijacked???

Having nothing better to do while I waited for my hair to dry, I decided to check my mail. And while I was at it, why not check my bulk mail folder, right? Notwithstanding the fact that I almost never check it.

There were three mails in the aforesaid folder. Two were junk mail, as expected. The third was a delivery notice failure.

Hold on, when did I last send out a mail that didn't get through? I clicked on the mail to open it, and this is what greeted me:





Once again, click on it to enlarge. The alleged personal (I'm assuming it is, because I didn't recall sending this out) details I sent out is, most obviously, a virus. What the #^*%!????


Can somebody explain how in the world this could've happened? Preceding this unpleasant revelation, I had rebooted my computer, then doused it with a good measure of Spybot, AdAware and HijiackThis log programs already. I'm still receiving help for the latter one at this point, but I didn't think someone would be sending emails out in MY name. Damn. My email address must be finding its way onto a lot of junk mail lists by now.

1 comment:

D said...

think i get quite a few of this kinda weird emails too... i usually jus ignore them..