Dodgy Emails

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Thanks@ Ronaldo

edit to add:

Just installed it and run.  Took about 8minutes to do a full scan. Found nothing but looks thorough.

[charliehorse]

sammy13
Not sure the problem was the email from joose juice if it was one of 300 emails received.
More likely a virus has got in and scanned your mail folder and spoofed some likely names you are likely to click on.
I used to get emails from myself (spoofed mail address made to read as mine but not mine) and at one time I was on my own blocked list

Glad you seem to have it sorted out.

[Ron]

Oct 5, 2014 9:11:21 GMT sammy13 said:

Oct 4, 2014 20:11:45 GMT Chrissie said:

Was just about to post the same advice as ronaldo

Install it from here -

download.cnet.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html

Thankyou,

I run it and it found 28 problems.

I had had pups, and been hijacked

Seriously though, I don't know what that exactly means but glad that they are gone

PUPS equals ....Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs)

[sammy13]

Oct 5, 2014 14:08:01 GMT charliehorse said:

sammy13
Not sure the problem was the email from joose juice if it was one of 300 emails received.
More likely a virus has got in and scanned your mail folder and spoofed some likely names you are likely to click on.
I used to get emails from myself (spoofed mail address made to read as mine but not mine) and at one time I was on my own blocked list

Glad you seem to have it sorted out.

Joose was the only one I opened though, and it wasn't actually from joose it was something foreign.

I do not have anyone in my contacts at all .

Anything could have caused my problem though.

The only programmes I have on my pc that I am aware of ( programme list ) , are those needed to work the pc and internet i.e adobe, plus the mixing calc.

I have no pictures, music, documents, no office file nothing.

I was therefore surprised to find 28 problems especially as I had manually deleted things, plus run crap cleaner and the antivirus god knows how many times.

[sammy13]

Oct 5, 2014 15:19:36 GMT Ron said:

Oct 5, 2014 9:11:21 GMT sammy13 said:

Thankyou,

I run it and it found 28 problems.

I had had pups, and been hijacked

Seriously though, I don't know what that exactly means but glad that they are gone

PUPS equals ....Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs)

Thankyou, well they were unwanted, plus unknown and unheard of.

When I looked at my programme list though, uninstall etc, they were not there so they must have been hiding somehow.

I don't know how to do screenshots, so I can not show what I mean sorry.

[charliehorse]

Oct 5, 2014 16:41:14 GMT sammy13 said:

Oct 5, 2014 14:08:01 GMT charliehorse said:

sammy13
Not sure the problem was the email from joose juice if it was one of 300 emails received.
More likely a virus has got in and scanned your mail folder and spoofed some likely names you are likely to click on.
I used to get emails from myself (spoofed mail address made to read as mine but not mine) and at one time I was on my own blocked list

Glad you seem to have it sorted out.

Joose was the only one I opened though, and it wasn't actually from joose it was something foreign.

I do not have anyone in my contacts at all .

Anything could have caused my problem though.

The only programmes I have on my pc that I am aware of ( programme list ) , are those needed to work the pc and internet i.e adobe, plus the mixing calc.

I have no pictures, music, documents, no office file nothing.

I was therefore surprised to find 28 problems especially as I had manually deleted things, plus run crap cleaner and the antivirus god knows how many times.

I am just going on the fact that you had the 300 hundred emails before you opened the joose one.

This to me indicates a virus of some sort.

Just because you have no one in your contact list doesn't mean anything, the virus could have scanned your browser history and generated the spam from that - they are very, very sneaky.

You have then opened up the email with a possible second virus lurking inside it.

The main thing is that you got it sorted out.