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2 Replies Last post: Jul 24, 2008 5:07 PM by rab777hp  
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Simonantibes
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Mar 24, 2008 11:03 PM

HELP - zombie macbook?

I just got an undelivered mail message from a russian host (delphinus.atknet.ru.) about a viagra email coming from my mail - which of course I never sent. Turns out my mail has tried sending it out to multiple users, of which 2 were unknown (don't know how many attempts were successful).

HELP - Looks like I've been turned into a zombie. Any solutions to this? How to clean up my system (OSX 10.5.2) and stop this from happening again?
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TugBoat666
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1. Apr 5, 2008 5:31 PM in response to: Simonantibes
Re: HELP - zombie macbook?

I doubt that you have become a zombie. It is likely that someone has taken your email address and is 'spoofing' it as the 'from' address in this spam that is being sent. Happens all the time.


Please post back if you develop a taste for human brains.


Andy

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rab777hp
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2. Jul 24, 2008 5:07 PM in response to: Simonantibes
Re: HELP - zombie macbook?
First, you need to update to 10.5.4 both updates, .4 and .3 had important security updates. Second, you might have a trojan, download net barrier, which is on apple downloads, it will give you a 30 day free trial, and it gets rid of trojans.
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