[softwarelist] Re: accounts getting hacked...
- From: "Richard Torrens (lists)" <Lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: David Pilling <davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 18:01:20 +0100
In article <8c+6hjDZcr$PFwJ4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
David Pilling <flist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 'm involved with a number of mail lists. What keeps happening is that
> people's aol or yahoo accounts get hacked in to and are used to send
> spam to their contacts - including the lists.
Is this not more likely to be malware running on the person's computer?
I have seen this several times (as the recipient of such emails): such
malware infects the computer and then spams all the email addresses it can
find.
Aol is (of course) particularly prone to such attacks.
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