[Oz-teachers] Trojans and other nasties

[Roland Gesthuizen]

I caused a similar flurry on this list  a couple of years ago when something
briefly took over my copy of MS Outlook. Thank goodness it was a lame
message about surfing and that even the bot gave up after pounding hundreds
of the addresses in my contact list. (again, apologies to all) Another
reason why I now use a free, web based client with oodles of storage, solid
online malware detection and a robust OS like OSX or Ubuntu.

Peeking out from under my safe blanket, is spam still an issue for many
users?

Regards Roland

On 17 April 2011 07:34, Margaret Lloyd <mm.lloyd at qut.edu.au> wrote:

> Hello all
> I have been in communication with Liz Owers who was unaware of the odd
> message sent to the list from her account yesterday and has now discovered a
> trojan in her machine. The message was also sent to several other email
> addresses. A nasty little botnet at work?
>
> Others have let me know of other instances with hotmail and gmail accounts
> being "infected" with one offering a pre-emptive apology in case something
> similar came from his account.
>
> Looks like the online world has gone temporarily mad. (Or maybe not so
> temporary)
>
> Doctor's advice: Run your virus checkers. Isolate, quarantine, kill
> anything that doesn't look or behave correctly. Check if any download advice
> doesn't look quite right. Be suspicious of everything.
>
> We will try to keep the list as 'clean' as we can and keep accounts intact.
>
> Regards
> Marg Lloyd
>
>
> Dr Margaret Lloyd
> Associate Professor, Faculty of Education
> Phone +61 7 313 83758
> CRICOS No. 00213J
>
>
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