Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 28, 2012 - 07:07am PT
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Interesting Murcy. There were addresses I did not recognize. And there were many that are not in my address book but are places I sent a single email to...sometimes a year or more ago. Bizarre. Wonder if I can figure out more looking at all the returned emails I got.
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Ron Anderson
Trad climber
Soon to be Nipple suckling Liberal
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Dec 28, 2012 - 09:02am PT
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i did find out last night that there are TONS of viruses being sent out from places like Africa, and the ME. Some sort of cyber war going on i would imagine.
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Dec 28, 2012 - 09:04am PT
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Graphically speaking, the idea is to keep all the bad stuff, portrayed here by Tinkerbell, from entering your private domain.
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froodish
Social climber
Portland, Oregon
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Dec 28, 2012 - 09:32am PT
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^^ Oh those Disney animators ;-)
As others noted email is easily spoofed but if you have a copy with the complete headers SpamCop is pretty good about determining the actual source:
http://spamcop.net
Was it a web mail account?
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 28, 2012 - 10:43am PT
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gmail account. I assume that is a webmail account??
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Jingy
climber
Somewhere out there
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Dec 28, 2012 - 11:47am PT
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I got ther email...
Completely forgot this post and only remembered after clicking....
No harm no foul
Similar thing happened a week or so ago with Lynne.
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QITNL
climber
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Dec 28, 2012 - 11:53am PT
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Try this
https://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=50270
and then this:
https://support.google.com/mail/bin/mail.google.com/support/bin/static.py?hl=en&page=checklist.cs&tab=29488
(You will need to copy & paste those links)
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 28, 2012 - 12:29pm PT
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Thanks QITNL. Looks like I've done most of that. Still, I'd not seen these pages - they are really useful!
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Dec 28, 2012 - 02:12pm PT
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Yeah Karl, with the increasing popularity of Apple products, the scumbags will start targeting them more.
I don't think it's a apple virus or anything. If they can get you to sign a phoney page that looks real, they get your info without regard to OS. Or they can just attack your account without involving your computer at all, or steal your info from a server that's not properly protected
Peace
karl
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LL LL
Sport climber
moving thru
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Dec 28, 2012 - 09:52pm PT
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Sorry Jingy et al. I answered an email from a close friend. Turned out to be a false one. How can hackers know so much?
Anyway, when I answered I got slammed....then everyone on my email address list got slammed too. Again, sorry. Lynne
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