email virus ?

[Blazer]

relative called on thursday 03/04 with concerns of possible infection, i advised to run a scan in safemode, in the meantime i recieved an email from him on sat 03/06 with only a link to this site,

http://udalow.gmxhome.de/tOdIwVSOLI.htm,

i have not opened the link, called to him this morning and verified he did not send the email so i instructed him to unplug from the internet and do a full system scan, apparently his pc is sending emails to anyony in his contact book, scanned my pc with mse and came up clean, should i report the site ? can anyone check the site, how concerned should i be.

 

[lxskllr]

It's just spam. It may very well not even be on relative's machine. The address was probably spoofed.

Edit:
Thinking about it, I guess something did farm his contact list. I'd scan with a good A/V, and Malwarebytes. The link was just typical Canadian pharmaceutical spam though.

 

[Blazer]

when he gets in from work ill have him download some applications to try a clean up, apparently he had problems connecting to the internet and had to call mediacom to fix some problem on his pc, i had him install mse in oct 2009, he said it was up to date and a full safe mode scan returned no problems.

thanks for checking the link.

 

[UsandThem]

My email was hacked or accessed in the middle of night three days ago (Yahoo email) and it sent messages with links like that to everyone in my address book. I noticed it because several of the address were old and I started receiving delivery failure notices.

 

[amheck]

My email was hacked or accessed in the middle of night three days ago (Yahoo email) and it sent messages with links like that to everyone in my address book. I noticed it because several of the address were old and I started receiving delivery failure notices.

This happened to my wife last nite and I came here wanted to ask about it. Email with a link to viagra, etc, was sent out to everyone in her address book.

We already changed her Yahoo password. Does this mean that someone had the password to the account? I didn't think this was a virus on the PC, as all her mail is web-based. All of the emails were in her Sent Mail, so I'm assuming someone did this via the web?

 

[UsandThem]

I don't think it was virus related. I think someone found a loophole or vulnerability with Yahoo. Yahoo sent me a message several days later saying they believed my account was accessed and made me change my password again.

 

[TJCS]

Adding to the topic, Malware Responsible for New Windows Live Hotmail Hijackings

 

[Aztech]

My email was hacked or accessed in the middle of night three days ago (Yahoo email) and it sent messages with links like that to everyone in my address book. I noticed it because several of the address were old and I started receiving delivery failure notices.

This has happened to me twice in the past few weeks now...I'm looking into it...someone please post if they find a fix.