Hello,
I’m worried I might have a virus or been hacked or something of the like.
Last night, I was on the aol.co.uk website and clicked a link on to one of the news items. A box popped up, but I didn’t see much of what it said…it was something like ‘windows is asking for’ something or other and there were two boxes for text in the box for, I assume, a username and password, but I clicked it away by the cross without thinking much of it (this definitely wasn’t an aol pop up, I’d never seen this before).
Today, I woke up to people emailing me to let me know that my email might be hacked cos they’d gotten emails from me with a url in. My email is also with AOL and I gain access to it via that same aol.co.uk site.
Having checked, there are no sent mails in my folder, and there are none of those undelivered mails either that you would usually get from old email addresses accessed in your address book if the email had been sent from my account. The emails, although they had my full name as the ‘from’, had different email addresses under it (so not using my actual email address, just my name as the identity).
So although it appears the emails weren’t physically sent from my email account, they used my full name and had definitely hacked or copied my address book for the recipient list, I recognised them all, even the really old ones. So while I had thought it was a spook, getting hold of my address book made me think hacked or virus.
So obviously I changed my password, but I came here remembering the weird pop up last night, in case I’d got hacked or virused or something.
Avast scan says nothing. Spybot search and destroy only found cookie rubbish, nothing serious. Malware bytes didn’t find anything either, but I’ve headed here cos I don’t trusts it.
While I was looking at this site, I had the aol.co.uk site open in another tab, that was like an hour ago now. A box suddenly popped up on the aol.co.uk tab, saying that I had to update my java, but it was bad grammar and didn’t seem at all authentic. I clicked the box away with the cross, but it still reloaded the AOL page to a page for downloading java but that looked dodgy:
h**p://dl35.shstny.com/topic/java/download.php?country=GB&ext=3&aid=137
At the bottom it even said the website wasn’t owned by the people who owned the software. But that was only the aol.co.uk page that happened on.
I’ve had other tabs and pages open while I’ve been looking it up and finding the tools to do the logs for you guys and it hasn’t (touch wood) happened on any other site, the weird stuff’s only been happening on the aol.co.uk site, so far at least.
Anyways, I’d appreciate your help in finding out if I have a virus from the first pop-up box last night. Otherwise, I can only think that the aol.co.uk site has been compromised, and that’s just weird cos it’s a big company so I doubt it.
Thanks in advance, I’ve attached all the logs needed (I think!). I’m not a very techy person so apologies in advanced if I need babysteps through anything!
