AOL mail gone mad

[Neil Davey]

I use Plusnet and have mail from my old AOL account delivered to the Mail program on my mac and this morning it redelivered all my old emails even those I’d deleted as far back as last Friday!!!

Must be hyperspace gremlins!

[Peter Normington]

sounds bad, 🙁
hope its not a virus…

Peter

[Martin Oxenham]

I’ve had this with Hotmail….someone hacks into the account and sends out Emails to all your contacts normally advertising something. The Email comes from you with the message like " I really recommend this site", with a link which is usually a scam site or Trojan. Eventually all you’re contacts are deleted. Took me ages to recover all the contacts and Hotmail don’t really seem to care.

[Cheryl Smith]

I dont have anyone in my contacts list and the emails are getting sent to nobody I have ever heard of before….
AOL have no resource that I can see for reporting such things or getting help for them…. 🙄 seesh

[David Rowland]

Cheryl, more likely your program didn’t find the malware, try another like SpyBot Search and Destroy http://www.safer-networking.org/en/home/index.html

If you get lots, i mean lots then it could be coming from someone else who your email often, the addresses have been taken and then spammed, the clue is who they have been targetting.

Also, Neil yours sounds like the setting "Delete Mail off Server" in the POP3 settings within your mail software is not ticked.

[Neil Davey]

quote Dave Rowland:

Neil yours sounds like the setting “Delete Mail off Server” in the POP3 settings within your mail software is not ticked.

Cheers Dave, I’ve checked those and they were unchecked.
Funny how its just happened this once but thinking about it I
was reorganizing my mail program on the weekend so maybe that
was my problem.

Hope so 😕

[Cheryl Smith]

It seems to have gone now………I wondering if emptying my contacts list may have helped.
😕
glad I seem to have more of a grip now and my video card is okay since I wiggled it about abit.

[Cheryl Smith]

blimy..ive had 60 retuned emails that I have not sent in the last 10 minutes………its all kicking off again and I have noone in my contact list……….may end up having to burn my aol account (!)

[Cheryl Smith]

quote Dave Rowland:

Cheryl, more likely your program didn’t find the malware, try another like SpyBot Search and Destroy http://www.safer-networking.org/en/home/index.html

If you get lots, i mean lots then it could be coming from someone else who your email often, the addresses have been taken and then spammed, the clue is who they have been targetting.

Also, Neil yours sounds like the setting “Delete Mail off Server” in the POP3 settings within your mail software is not ticked.

I installed eset nod32 antivirus after it was recommended on here.

[Neil Davey]

quote Cheryl Smith:

may end up having to burn my aol account (!)

Or burn your PC and get a MAC!!

[Cheryl Smith]

I know…
macs are so expensive and I have a new office to build…..it is looking that way tho……

[Alan Drury]

Keep the PC – get rid of AOL
Alan D

[Luke s Bremner]

Malwar wont be detected by anti virus. I have been using malwarebytes it is free. I would also change your password to your email account.

[Stephen Morriss]

As Alan said, keep the pc get rid of AOL.

By the way Macs will only be low on the virus radar untill enough people use them for the virus writers to take more notice.
There are already a few virus and Trojans for Macs so don’t just assume your immune.

Steve

[Adam Ross]

I had exactly the same thing a few months ago, I ended up removing the e-mail account, but not before loads of people sent me e-mails asking why I had sent them all sorts of rubbish. Lucky it was an old personal account.