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Vanity: Am I being Hacked? HELP!?!
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Posted on 12/07/2001 8:02:06 PM PST by 50sDad
Twice in the past 24 hours, I have gotten emails with "re:" as a subject title, and no text. I "Replyed" without opening to one of them, and the response window showed me two HTML tags that would not have been visible on the message. Here is the first one, edited, with parenthesis in place of the HTML brackets and number strings edited out:
(iframe src=mailbox:/[data string leading to my Inbox]?id=[12 digits].[buncha digits & numbers] %40mx16.mx.voyager.net&number=110090047&part=1.2 height=0 width=0)
The "response to" line of the email had a valid name string with a underline before the first letter of the name, a technique I have used to prevent spam.
Sender was Kieran Silk <_jackier@telstra.easymail.com.au.
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Can anybody tell me if this is a method to hack me somehow, or just an honest goof?
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posted on
12/07/2001 8:02:06 PM PST
by
50sDad
To: 50sDad
I've gotten some like this in the past and simply deleted them, and noticed no hacking. I wouldn't worry.
But do have Zone Alarm running, just in case, as I do.
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To: 50sDad
The underscore before the email address is usually associated with a virus having penetrated your inbox. Go to http://www.mcafee.com and they have an online scanner that will scan and clean your entire system of viruses. If it can't clean it'll tell you how to do it manually. The underscore has appeared most recently with the Badtrans virus. Whoever's email program that sent it to you may not even be aware that the email was sent to you.
To: 50sDad
Just the latest virus going around. Make sure you are running anti-virus software such as Norton or McAfee and keep it updated.
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posted on
12/07/2001 8:08:40 PM PST
by
'smith
To: StoneColdGOP
I'm not hacked, are you?
To: 50sDad
Yes, by all means go to http://www.zonelabs.com and download the free version of ZoneAlarm. Also, you should consider either buying a good anti-virus program from either McAfee or Norton http://www.symantec.com or get the free anti-virus program at http://www.grisoft.com
To: dubyaismypresident
No, I am a hack, not hacked.
To: StoneColdGOP
I am hacking, darn cigarettes....
To: PatriotGames
The underscore before the email address is usually associated with a virus having penetrated your inbox.What if you don't open the attachment that comes with an email from an address with an underscore at the beginning? I ran my updated Norton Antivirus this evening and it came up with nothing, and I have my Zone Alarm on.
To: StoneColdGOP
GO read the online details about a firewall. Firewalls do VERY LITTLE to stop a virus.
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posted on
12/07/2001 8:16:42 PM PST
by
SwankyC
To: 50sDad
I've been getting two or three emails a day like you described for the past 2 weeks. Sending test emails to some of the addresses just came back undeliverable??????
Still pondering and researching the answer. I'm guessing a worm in other people's Outlook Express producing the emails. This doesn't explain the bad email addresses though.
Holler if you find out anything please.
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posted on
12/07/2001 8:17:32 PM PST
by
spectr17
To: dubyaismypresident
Try cigars, just don't choke.
To: SwankyC
I didn't try to say a firewall could stop a virus, but that it could fend off hackers.
To: StoneColdGOP
I do like a good Arturo Fuente, Macanudos are good too.
To: dubyaismypresident
A man who knows his cigars, you'd be right at home at ATF Night.
To: PatriotGames
I have had 3 virus attacks in a couple of days. I normally have none. Norton anti-virus 2001 stopped them. I also use Zone Alarm.
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posted on
12/07/2001 8:21:25 PM PST
by
Chemnitz
To: dubyaismypresident
A chainmail "coif" can aid in protecting one's head, neck and shoulders, while one is being "hacked".
To: BansheeBill
Why am I thinking
"We are the knights that say 'neet'"
To: 50sDad
I think you are only getting spammed, not hacked.
If you're using Outlook Express, a plug-in to filter out the HTML may be on the way -
The Register - December 6, 2001 - "No-HTML" plug-in for Outlook available
It only works on Outlook now, but perhaps it will work with OE in the future.
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posted on
12/07/2001 8:25:40 PM PST
by
HAL9000
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