Stan in Oly, WA
Well-known Member
Since the beginning of January I have received e-mails from several people who I happen to know do not know each other well or communicate with each other by e-mail. These e-mails have no greeting or message except to say something like "hey, check this out" followed by a clickable link.
The first of these e-mails was from someone I had been e-mailing regularly at the time. It wasn't normal for him to send me an e-mail with no message but it didn't seem unreasonable to think he might have sent it. I opened the link which was an ad for some sort of work-from-home type of scam. I informed him that his e-mail account seemed to have been hacked. I didn't open any more e-mails from him, but the damage was probably already done by then.
If my computer is infected, (or my e-mail account has been hacked,if that's not the same thing), how do I go about taking care of it?
Thanks,
Stan
The first of these e-mails was from someone I had been e-mailing regularly at the time. It wasn't normal for him to send me an e-mail with no message but it didn't seem unreasonable to think he might have sent it. I opened the link which was an ad for some sort of work-from-home type of scam. I informed him that his e-mail account seemed to have been hacked. I didn't open any more e-mails from him, but the damage was probably already done by then.
If my computer is infected, (or my e-mail account has been hacked,if that's not the same thing), how do I go about taking care of it?
Thanks,
Stan