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 Post subject: Someone got into my email account
 Post Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 7:00 pm 
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Started getting lots of emails like this about 2 days ago, Logged into my gmail account at home and was told I've had some account activity in south Korea, Checked my sent mail and some twat/bot has sent this email about 500 times.

I've changed the password and any account tied to that has been changed as well.

How did this bloke get my password?
Use Microsoft security essentials on all my puters, is it crap?
This happened while I was on holiday so I doubt it's any pc at home, The only thing I can think of is me using wireless hot spots all over America/Canada with my phone and laptop.
Virus scan picks up nothing.

Laptop is now off, know of any good tools for scanning an android 2.2 phone?

edit* I had a world of warcraft account about 3-4 years ago, but it no longer exists when I try to log into it, What about if the bot logged into my old wow account ( I might av used the same password as my email but I doubt it, then linked the two together? )
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"Blizzard Entertainment to jordan202
show details 11 Sep (1 day ago)
Hello,

This is an automated notification regarding your World of Warcraft account. Your account options was recently modified through the Account Management website.

If you made this change to your subscription type, please disregard this automatic notification.

*** If you did NOT make any changes to your account or subscription, we recommend you login to Account Management at the following link to review your account settings:
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/account/billing/

If you cannot sign into Account Management using the link above, or if unauthorized changes continue to happen, please contact Blizzard Billing & Account Services for advanced assistance.

Billing & Account Services can be reached at 1-800-59-BLIZZARD (1-800-592-5499 Mon-Fri, 8Am-8PM Pacific Time) or at billing@blizzard.com.

Account security is solely the responsibility of the accountholder. Please be advised that in the event of a compromised account, Blizzard representatives will typically lock the account. In these cases the Account Administration team will require faxed receipt of ID materials before releasing the account for play.

Regards,

The World of Warcraft Support Team
Blizzard Entertainment
http://www.blizzard.com/support/wowindex/

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This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification

THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY.

YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE.

Delivery to the following recipient has been delayed:

jordan202@btinernet.com

Message will be retried for 2 more day(s)

Technical details of temporary failure:
The recipient server did not accept our requests to connect. Learn more at http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answ ... nswer=7720
[btinernet.com (1): Connection timed out]

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Received: from brcghwncq ([58.180.254.140])
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Sat, 11 Sep 2010 07:17:47 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <88FBBCBC2328FE7912402E9B370ABF93@brcghwncq>
From: Blizzard Entertainment <bower1@gmail.com>
To: <jordan202@btinernet.com>
Subject: Worldofwarcraft Account login
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 22:17:06 +0800
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
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X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5512
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5512"

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 Post subject: Re: Someone got into my email account
 Post Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 11:30 pm 
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Stay off the goat sites ;)

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microsofts freebie seems as good as avg etc and less intrusive, that + my router with nat/firewall i dont get many problems as i dont let others on my pc.


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 Post subject: Re: Someone got into my email account
 Post Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 11:44 pm 
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Ive received the same e-mail loads of times in the past few weeks ...never ever have played WOW .... so dont click does links. :roll:

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 Post subject: Re: Someone got into my email account
 Post Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 4:16 pm 
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I think he's saying that's the email he's found sent from his GMail account ;)

I use MS Security essentials as well, swapped from Avira (which is, imo, the best free AV around) simply due to it's update not working that well.

Avira is supposed to be better, AVG worse...

If you want something complete and strong, then I noticed Bit Defender (currently ranked the best anti virus and whatnot) is doing a special 1 year, 3 PC, license of their complete suite (anti virus, firewall, anti malware yada yada yada) for £29.99 - which is dirt cheap considering what you get ;)


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 Post subject: Re: Someone got into my email account
 Post Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 9:01 pm 
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that was a stupid comment btw
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public access points = no encryption
your user/pass would be easy to intercept in a public place with ease

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 Post subject: Re: Someone got into my email account
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nerds on bleeping computer say that Microsoft is ironically the best one at the moment... better than pay ones.... the definitions are more up to date.

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 Post subject: Re: Someone got into my email account
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