Spam???? Virus???? Redcometgt

Redcometgt AOL.com sent me a website unrequested. Im guessing a virus. Just wanted to let everyone know

 

I received something a few days ago also. It led me to think it was car related in the subject and when I opened it it went to something else. I clicked off of it quick but it kinda just sat there so I unpluged my pc.

 

around the 18th?

 

Sounds right..

 

Do like Gene said, immediately unplug the computer. Do NOT click anywhere on the popup window, or you will be installing the REAL bug. Just unplug the computer, letting it power off.

Unplug the network cable or wifi card, and restart, and immediately run Malwarebytes.

That will catch and clean pretty much anything out there.

You start clicking on the popup window, to Accept, Deny, Yes, No, or even X out, or like my dad, try to grab the bar and move the window down and out of the way, and it will install a mess of trojan horse viruses. The longer you let them reproduce, the better your chances of ruining your computer.

I have fixed MANY of these in recent months. Some are so far gone I just reformat and start over.

 

I get so much spam lately from Maverick people, or at least it looks like it is from them, that I can't recall all the stuff I have deleted.

 

Craig, you are going to get it because you post your email address up on the forum, even if you have the (a) replace the (a) with @

Some guys will actually take the time to convert it to @ and spam it, and now you are in the spam registry of addresses.

If you use a pop3 account, and you even see the email from someone, their server recognizes that the email has been "accepted" so your address is registered as a valid address, and those who wish to sell or share it will.

 

My Yahoo was sending emails to the people in my contact list, I dont know how.
They were automated and didn't show up in my sent folder.
It was usually a link to like a Viagra alternative. I contacted yahoo and they never figured it out. So I just deleted everyone on my contact list.

The funny thing is that my ex was in my contact list so i'm pretty sure she got a viagra link email

 

Yahoo didn't send that email out, a viral email went into your email in-box, grabbed all your email contacts, and sent itself out to everyone on your list.

I get these from my co-workers all the time, from their home computers. Poor antivirus protection, and lack of anti-malware protection.

Personally, I run Linux Ubuntu now, and actually enjoy the show that the viruses and malware put on for me, because I know that they are trying to install onto my computer with all of their false warnings and popup windows, but cannot do any harm to my operating system.

I highly suggest Ubuntu to anyone who has even a moderate knowledge of computers. Easy to install, almost does it itself, but requires a bit of knowledge to install other crap, which is why the bugs cannot install.

 

I did not know this guys.....thanks for the info. I will work on getting a better "signature" to combat this.

 

I got the email too, I was going to email Seth.

 

I get them all the time. Heck....I even get them from myself!! Not sure there is anything a person can do about it.