Pat Connors wrote: > Beauregard wrote: >> Don't publish your email address? I see yours here in your post; and I >> also see it on your web site, where harvesters can easily get it.
> Evidently, I wasn't clear. I suppose not then. I read your original post as you were receiving phishing email and wondered how to stop it. "I have been phished two times." (It's in another thread.) Perhaps you misused the term phishing, which means "an email designed to entice me to a hacker's web site so I can give him my bank account numbers" and similar. > It has nothing to do with picking up my email address, it has to do > with getting /into/ my Address Book and sending spam emails to all in > the book. If that is truly the case, your computer is infected with a trojan. This is the only way spam could *originate* on your computer. > The email looks like it came from me but the were never sent by my > email program. No, of course not. All modern spamming trojans (in those million-PC bot-nets) have their own internal SMTP engine. They send when you're not looking. > I have all kinds of virus protection and spyware protection and scan > my computer once a week but I believe my Address Book got compromised > on Facebook Yes, Facebook. There's your answer! It's a security sieve. > or when I was browsing the web. Not likely. > I am wondering if there are software out there where you can lock your > Address Book in some manner where others can't get into it or is > there someway, I can do it with SeaMonkey. I will never go on > Facebook again, without protection. If your computer has a trojan, there's no way to lock "your address book" or anything else on the PC. Since you've apparently posted the contents of your email address book on Facebook, what kind of "protection" could there be? You've already given it away. -- -bts -Linux viruses: a few dozen, and they only exist in the lab -Mac viruses: maybe a hundred, and also mostly in the lab -Windows viruses: I've lost track; do we have a quarter-million yet? _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
