Thanks for the advice Larry. I do have protection and, like yours, it does all the usual stuff like warning me if I try to open something dodgy. However in this instance the crap came from my account but not from any of my devices. Gmail history for my account shows activity from an IP address in Egypt about 8 hours ago (I'm in Australia and was asleep 8 hours ago - 1:30am). Somehow my password has been compromised. It's now been changed. Advice for all is change your password regularly and don't use the same password for different services (e.g. facebook, banking, etc.).
Cheers, Tony On 1 May 2012 09:29, Larry&Sallie Flesner <[email protected]> wrote: > At 04:28 PM 4/30/2012, you wrote: >>Just found my gmail account has been hijacked and used to send crap to >>every address in every email I've ever received. >>Tony > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > No one should ever have " unprotected Internet". I recommend > "ZoneAlarm" and "Avast-Free Antivirus" . They are both free > downloads for "non-commercial" users. (home computers). I've been > running them for years with no problems. It flagged the SCAM e-mail > as soon as I tried to open it and said " you really don't want to do > that", "it has a virus". > Do yourself and the rest of us a favor and get protection............... > > Larry > > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://mylist.net/private/krnet/ > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to [email protected] > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
