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Date: | Wed, 10 Nov 2010 20:09:02 -0500 |
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I don't recall seeing them. This list probably blocks attachments.
(Or my employer spam blocker caught them, 50:50 either way.)
Tracy Johnson
Office 1-757-766-4318
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: OpenMPE Support Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of scott petersen
> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 7:58 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [OPENMPE] Spam E-mail appology
>
> Everyone,
>
> I am sending this e-mail to everyone in my HOTMAIL e-mail
> address book. Last week I believe that you may have received
> 2 (or more) e-mails from me. It is my belief that these were
> SPAM of some type. I am not sure what was being harvested or
> what was being done other than sending e-mails to people in
> your address book.
>
> I hope that you DID NOT click on the link, but some of you
> may have done so. I AM SORRY THAT I WAS SPOOFED. I believe
> that I have corrected my issue. I used 2 tools to complete
> this task.
>
> TOOL #1 was CCLEANER. This can be found at
> http://download.cnet.com/ccleaner/ . YOU DO NOT NEED TO PAY
> FOR IT. Simply install. During the install it will ask if
> you want to make CHROME your default browser and to add a
> GOOGLE bar to your browser. I would recommend that you
> UNCHECK both of these and NOT install those options. After
> the program is installed you need to CLEAN the files
> ("Cleaner - Run Cleaner" - option). Run that 2 times. Then
> when that finishes, you need to select "REGISTRY" and then
> ANALYZE, then "FIX". This should be repeated until it
> reports that your registry is clean (or atleast reports the
> same few entries).
>
> TOOL #2 was MALWAREBYTES. This can be found at
> http://www.malwarebytes.org/ . YOU DO NOT NEED TO PAY FOR IT.
> Simply install. After the program is installed you need to
> perform a FULL SCAN. If it finds anything, I recommend that
> you DELETE, PURGE, EXPUNGE, or whatever term they use to say
> get this OFF MY MACHINE. This should be repeated until it
> reports that you do not have any issues on your computer.
>
> Finally, I changed by HOTMAIL password after this was
> completed. I am not sure which fixed the problem, I just
> know that now things appear to be better.
>
>
> Scott T. Petersen
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