Emails keep being sent from my yahoo email address and also my wife's Hotmail account to all our contacts and people who we have emailed before.
Some of them are links to chines websites and some are just plain weird.
The problem is last week I mailed some work people from my personal email on the fly, and today they contacted me to say they received a mail from my address asking them to go to www.chickswithdicks.yoyo.com ???
It was quite embarrassing.
I have ran Avast, Adaware and now Malwarebytes and nothing found??
I'm not sure if its a problem on my desktop or my wife's laptop but I'm pulliong my hair out can someone please help?
Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.4
Scan saved at 21:42:40, on 16/08/2011
Platform: Windows Vista (WinNT 6.00.1904)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16982)
Boot mode: Normal
You are barking up the wrong tree. Change the passwords to the email accounts. Cut and paste the passwords from a text editor. Better yet, don't and see if the problem keep occuring. If so, your computer has a bot net with a key logger. You need to take action against idenity theft since that is one of the first things a bot net does. I suspect the emails you send are infecting your other contacts. Change the passwords using cut and paste then take your disk to a professional or take C: out and run it as a USB drive on a clean computer and find the bot net. I can see you had plenty of AV. I had the exact same and I had a bot net running on my computer. Viper is a good bet. That is what I used to find what the others missed. I keep a clean C: loaded with AV on the bookshelf in case I have these problems. P2P computers are favs for botnets.
I have seen this problem twice on other peoples computers. Changing the password won't do anything. Cleaning the computer won't find anything either. It has something to do with Yahoo but I'm not sure what it is. Closing the existing Yahoo email account and opening a new one fixes the problem.
There might be an easier way but I wasn't going to spent hours trying to track the problem down. Also at the time their wasn't info on the net regarding the problem. Maybe there is now. Do a little searching.
Originally posted by Jeffrey_P: I have seen this problem twice on other peoples computers. Changing the password won't do anything. Cleaning the computer won't find anything either. It has something to do with Yahoo but I'm not sure what it is. Closing the existing Yahoo email account and opening a new one fixes the problem.
There might be an easier way but I wasn't going to spent hours trying to track the problem down. Also at the time their wasn't info on the net regarding the problem. Maybe there is now. Do a little searching.
Jeff
From what you are saying it must happen magically! That attitude will only get you in deeper trouble. You computer is a haven for bot nets. If you change the password so that a key logger will not know what it is, that will prevent your email from being used when you are not logged in. You ought to have a fake address in your contacts so you will get an error if malware does a mass mailing of your contacts. A proper cleaning will remove the malware causing this. A ineffective cleaning will not help. A standard anti-virus package has little hope of removing a bot net, especially if you only us the package running while you were infected. You need stronger medicine.
"From what you are saying it must happen magically! That attitude will only get you in deeper trouble. You computer is a haven for bot nets. If you change the password so that a key logger will not know what it is, that will prevent your email from being used when you are not logged in."
Read his post. He said he already changed his password.
I also tried to do the same for my ex and friend.
If he contacts Yahoo they will also tell him to close his email account and open a new one. Something is rotten in Yahoo land.
i would also,if it were me,get rid of some of those other toolbars as well as the vuse searchook.these are not causing your problem but you computer will run a whole lot better without.now,download,update if asked and run combofix.make sure to disable antivirus before starting combofix.while combofix is running do not do anything on your computer,not so much as a mouse drag.i cant stress this last too much.allow combofix to completely finish.it will show you a log.post this log as well as another hijack this log and we will take it from there.
i would also,if it were me,get rid of some of those other toolbars as well as the vuse searchook.these are not causing your problem but you computer will run a whole lot better without.now,download,update if asked and run combofix.make sure to disable antivirus before starting combofix.while combofix is running do not do anything on your computer,not so much as a mouse drag.i cant stress this last too much.allow combofix to completely finish.it will show you a log.post this log as well as another hijack this log and we will take it from there.
My ex also had a ton of toolbars. One of the first things I did was to remove them. Also ran HijackThis. Still had the same problem.
She is one of those people who will never learn you can't click on every damn thing. Clicks before even skimming the EULA.
Before becoming an engineer I was an FSE for eight years. I no longer have the patience to deal with people who make the same mistakes over and over again.
If you can figure out what the culprit is, I'd sure like to know.
Most malware like that above has a built in key logger that sends your new password back to 'the hive' unless you install a key scrambler or type the password in note pad then cut and paste. The reason you don't just forget your old account and move on is you owe it to your contacts to fix the problem. You also need to remove the malware because you owe that to yourself.
