My friends are complaining they receive the following message from me on Windows Live Messenger:
Wanna lose a lot of weight without diets or excercise? Kathy and I have both lost over 31 pounds in a couple weeks just by taking Acai tablets daily, the same ones that Oprah talked about on her show. They are only five dollars to try, We get them from http://doteduty.com
What does it mean? Am I infected by a virus or worms? What should I do?
I’m using Windows Vista Pro SP1 with Avast! antivirus.
Seems a spambot is using your email address. I think you can do nothing right now, but it will be good to scan your computer with avast at boot time and, maybe, with MBAM and SAS.
Call me suspicious, but repeating the advert with the link, when this is your first post looks more like spam than a cry for help, but I’m a trusting sod NOT.
Benefit of doubt, it is more likely that someone you know is infected and their address book is being used to send spam to all in that list and others. Now spammers also fake the from address as an address in that list. So it is unlikely that you are sending out spam.
If you have a firewall with outbound protection, should detect and stop unauthorised outbound connections. Set the Internet Mail provider to High sensitivity that too would alert on too many identical emails in a set period (spam), so that should alert you to the posibility of a spambot on your system.
Running MBAM and SAS should confirm if you are clear of hidden or undetected spambots.
I know this problem! all my friend had this problem, when they were not online, they account came online for 2-3 sec, and then gone offline and an message came from them, your computer is clean! not any virus or spyware, a bad server has found your password duo to click on a bad link that has nothing inside or go to a google search or…
just change your password and care more about the links that you click on! don’t click any link that come from your friends, before click on those links, first ask them to make sure they sent you that link…
Not a problem, as I said I’m a trusting sod, and you really would be surprised what people post in these forums trying to advertise a product ;D
When you say you tried all the other solutions, does that include running MBAM and SAS from safe mode ?
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