Charles -- your computer probably is infected with malware. You need to regularly keep your system up to date with the patches available from Microsoft via the Windows Update -- new crap is coming out every day.
You visit a hostile web page and the page uses a known (and unpatched) flaw in IE to install software on your system behind the scenes without your knowledge. This software looks at your email address list and sends out copies of itself to everyone on the list with links to other hostile web pages. I do not know what this particular bit of trash does but some of the malware logs your keystrokes looking for 16 digit strings followed by 4 and 3 (your credit card number, the date of expiration and the CIS code) and it will email that data to it's parent system. It is possible to install stuff as root -- this way, the process will never ever show up on the task manager and killing it is a long involved process. Anyone that has reports of email activity like this needs to disconnect their computer from the internet, boot into safe mode and using another system, download Malwarebytes Anti-Malware application (the free version is fantastic) and the latest definition file and using a thumb drive, bring it over to the infected computer (running in safe mode with no network connectivity) and install and run it. That will take care of most of the nasties out there. http://www.malwarebytes.org/ In the future, make sure that your computer is set up to auto-update on a regular basis. When a new flaw is discovered, MSFT will work day and night to fix it and offer a patch. The sooner you update, the sooner you will get this protection. Also, do not run anything earlier than Windows XP when connected to the net -- MSFT is no longer supporting 95, 98, ME or 2000 and systems running these will be exploited in 30 minutes or less. There are known backdoors. Also, do not let your kids "play" on your work computer, put together one for them to use that has no email functions. A lot of the "free" online games are just portals to malware. Dave > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of M K > Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2012 13:11 > To: Discussion of precise voltage measurement > Subject: Re: [volt-nuts] Fwd: Public Health Update: novel > Corona virus update > > On 06/10/2012 19:41, Charles Black wrote: > > > Spammy rubbish ... the last two links are marketing clickthrough > traps... > > > _______________________________________________ > volt-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volt-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ volt-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volt-nuts and follow the instructions there.
