If you get an email from “TubaDiva” with nothing in it but a link it’s some kind of bug.
Don’t click on the link.
I am so sorry, don’t know how I picked this up but somehow I did.
Marley23 did it.
Timing…I just emailed you with a heads up because I got it.
Didn’t click. Figured it was either Canadian pharmacy or male enhancement. They usually are…
Hardly the first time you’ve given me a bug. I just hope this one doesn’t require all those special shampoos.
That’s a relief. I thought maybe some Canadian woman told you that I was in need of some Viagra, and you were passing along the hint.
Do you do all of your emailing online via the AOL Mail website or do you use a program to download your email like Outlook?
If it’s the former you probably don’t have a bug on your machine but your mail account has been compromised and you NEED to change your password ASAP.
If it’s the latter then carry on fixing, you do probably have a bug and it’s probably bad bad news.
It’s a “canadian” pharmacy. If you do go to the link, to be safe, close it from your Task Manager instead of clicking the red “X”. Sometimes, links are hiding in the area of the Close icon.
As long as penicillin will cure it, it’s OK.
::: wanders off to check inbox:::
Hey, I didn’t get it, what you don’t love me anymore?
I don’t believe you have a bug. I think a hacker has your aol password and is sending mail by logging into your account. This is because the mail is coming through aol like normal aol mail. Spammers usually spoof the address, but this email appears to really come through aol and it’s sending it to your address book.
The hacker is likely in the UK. From the headers I received I see this:
Received: from 77.97.12.60 by webmail-d147.sysops.aol.com (149.174.18.37) with HTTP (WebMailUI); Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:40:16 -0400
The 77.97.12.60 address is in the UK.
There has been a lot of spam of this type where the hackers use your real email account (aol, gmail, hotmail, etc) to send spam. This is because they hack other websites where you use the same password as your email account. For example, you may have signed up on a website like tubafans.com. You had to give an email when you signed up. You had to create a password. Now that site has your email and password in a database. If a hacker gets it, he can try your password from tubafans.com at aol. If it matches, he’s in and can send email.
Change your aol password. You should always have a unique password for your email account so that hackers can’t get your email/password combination from another site and use it to get to your email account.
Oh, and the hacker can likely read all your email in your inbox. So he can see all the emails from your bank, stock broker, amazon, etc that have your ids for those accounts. You should change all your passwords so he can’t use that info to log into your other accounts.
I got it too. I seem to be a magnet for those things these days.