I don't think virus can access browser's saved password. It's lame to blame virus for spam emails from a webmail service. Virus or Windows has nothing to do with it.
He gave his password somewhere and allowed the service to harvest his addressbook. On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Mohammad Mukhtaruzzaman <[email protected]>wrote: > Internet browser can save the passwords. So, it is possible that > virus/program can obtain information from them, because keystroke logging > is > more difficult to get success for id hack though not impossible. > > All the browser have support for saving password. Internet explorer doesn't > show saved passwords to the users, but Mozilla even can show the saved > passwords to the users. So getting password not too much difficult. > > I have not much info about specific email service provider. But if you > analyze hacked id, you will see that these id can be used in POP3 account. > > > On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 7:43 PM, maSnun <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks a lot bro. It has started to make sense. BTW, how does the virus > > obtain the mail ID and password? People enter them inside a browser, > right? > > Do they log the key strokes? In that case, how did they know which one is > > password? (email ID is detectable using Regex). > > > > Yahoo! US didn't support SMTP access for a long time, don't know about > > recent updates. Are they offering free SMTP now? > > > > > > > > 2011/10/14 Mohammad Mukhtaruzzaman <[email protected]> > > > > > No webmail is affected by virus. When the program called virus obtain > the > > > mail ID and password, then it uses these information to send mail. They > > > don't use webmail, rather they use software/program that can send mail. > > To > > > send mail form any account only id and password is enough, no need to > > enter > > > into that email account using that website. Because, mail/smtp address > > > format are common for most of the email service provider. > > > > > > জুয়েল > > > > > > > -- > > Abu Ashraf Masnun | +8801711960803 | http://masnun.com < > http://masnun.com> > > -- > > Ubuntu Bangladesh > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bd > > > > > > -- > Mohammad Mukhtaruzzaman > -- > Ubuntu Bangladesh > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bd > -- Abu Ashraf Masnun | +8801711960803 | http://masnun.com <http://masnun.com> -- Ubuntu Bangladesh https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bd
