Are these Viagra ads intentional or has my friend’s computer been hijacked?
I get occasional advertising e-mails from an acquaintance. Since she is from a middling-wealthy family I think of her as not needing to make money by broadcasting Viagra ads and such. So, I wonder if her computer has been hijacked, or if the prospect of making money this way is realistic to her.
If hers has indeed been hijacked, then I wonder if my own computer may be similarly infected from opening her e-mails.
Chosen Answer:
She’s dropping a hint
by: Giggity-Goo
on: 2nd January 10
He needs it…. the computer wizards KNOW!!!
Many got the same problem..their email ids got hacked to such a thing which always keep on sending them some weird ads with the d i c k in it…it must be the same..
The way email system works allows people to send emails to other people using anyone address.
This means that i can send you and email, using your address without knowing your password.
All of this to say that whoever is sending that is just using the fact that you know this person and using that to create enough confidence in you to trust the email.
Usually spamming organizations do that. They send emails to people with email addresses from their friends.
If you now ask : but what is the password for? The password is just to read your emails. It is not used when sending.
There are some companies that are forcing users to use the password to send emails but as long as the system is as it is, it is always possible to override that.
I would say it’s been ‘hijacked’.
Sometimes they find a way in and ‘clone’ the email address, which they then use to send spam everywhere, also using the names on that email address.
Your friend probably knows nothing about this, so tell her, then she needs to report it to the email provider.
Then she needs to scan her system, I use 2 different systems to ensure a decent clean if I should need it: Avast & Malwarebytes, both are free, and very good.
It’s more likely the result of a virus than hacking, not least because a virus is a lot easier way to do it.
The best thing to do is simply to inform her of the e-mails and to check your own system for viruses, assuming you don’t regularly do that anyway.
You’d be stunned at the number of computer users who don’t regularly check for viruses.
these kinds of ad may not actually from your friend. it could be from some other friends also or anybody who knows your mail add and introduced your mail to these sites. once a single mail add is know from a site, this kind could also introduce to any third party until your mail add will known to be different sites. the only way to prevent it is to put these mails into your Spam folder.
computer can’t be hijacked but browser can be. use internet security or firewall. besides that, have full scan of your PC always.
Noops..
those viagara sellers are no1 but they are Spams.
They lie all newbies means those people who are newcomers or dnt have a vast knowledge on internet.
They sell viagara or make u claim for lotteries from Microsoft or Motorola which are 101% fake.
As u claimed it they detect ur mail to be active and sail it to more spammers and then sometimes sending u back some more details and asking u more some 50$ for delivery of ur money u won.
these mails are generally automated and ur frnds system has been hijacked by some1 and being used as botnet which sends these mails automatically following instructions set by the master.
She’s dropping a hint