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Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
This morning, my wife woke up and checked her email. Much to her dismay, she had send many emails about sexual related disfunction to many in her address book. The email were all somewhat different.
Here is the environment:
- We have several macs (iMac, macbook, etc.) and no PCs anywhere (I'd love to blame them, but can't)
- Her email is yahoo and she reads and sends from the web.
- The emails were sent and 4:30am for some minutes after that (we were sleeping) and they showed up in her yahoo sent box
- She was alerted because there were many out-of-the-office messages
- Amazingly, many of the email addresses that she sent to are from my address book, which means that the sender had access to information on our local drives (I use the apple mail client, and all of my contacts are in the address book).
- When I checked this morning, the system had been on all night and the yahoo mail page was open. There was a javascript alert on the screen saying that there had been some error.
On the mac that was open, I downloaded SOPHOS (free for home use) and started it. It looks like it will take a long time to run, but in the first few minutes, if found a threat called Troj/Invo-Zip. However, I don't think that it was the evil emailer.
Any ideas or thoughts about what we did and how to prevent? Since the spam that my wife sent looks like many others I receive, this must be a pretty common problem.
Change your passwords immediately. Your wife was probably successfully phished. Change your passwords - it's not a virus.