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Medhealthx trojan on my Mac?
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<blockquote data-quote="sving" data-source="post: 1109861" data-attributes="member: 171996"><p><strong>medhealthx xpharmx</strong></p><p></p><p>I'm not a Mac user but this is one of the more intelligent discussions I've seen and I thought I'd put my post here.</p><p></p><p>Last weekend, I got two messages from a colleague's Hotmail that pointed me to *.medhealthx.com sites. This morning, I got a very similar message from my wife's Hotmail account, pointing me to a *.xpharmx.com site.</p><p></p><p>I've been googling today to try to find what's up. As far as I can tell, all discussions including "medhealthx" are all from the past week or two. On the other hand, that may be because the spam author rolls out new domain names every week since I bet Hotmail spam filters will soon weed out messages containing *.medhealthx.com links. (My filters at work do that now.)</p><p></p><p>From what I've seen posted around the internet, this medhealthx issue spans Windows and Mac, Gmail and Hotmail. Messages do reside in Sent Items, so it appears this is not spoofing.</p><p></p><p>I changed my wife's Hotmail password. My fear is that the culprit is keylogging spyware. If that's true, it may happen again.</p><p></p><p>Regarding the possibility that it is an attack on weak passwords: My wife and colleague both had 6-character alpha passwords. That's not a super-easy level, but also not very strong.</p><p></p><p>I welcome suggestions about what to try or look for.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sving, post: 1109861, member: 171996"] [b]medhealthx xpharmx[/b] I'm not a Mac user but this is one of the more intelligent discussions I've seen and I thought I'd put my post here. Last weekend, I got two messages from a colleague's Hotmail that pointed me to *.medhealthx.com sites. This morning, I got a very similar message from my wife's Hotmail account, pointing me to a *.xpharmx.com site. I've been googling today to try to find what's up. As far as I can tell, all discussions including "medhealthx" are all from the past week or two. On the other hand, that may be because the spam author rolls out new domain names every week since I bet Hotmail spam filters will soon weed out messages containing *.medhealthx.com links. (My filters at work do that now.) From what I've seen posted around the internet, this medhealthx issue spans Windows and Mac, Gmail and Hotmail. Messages do reside in Sent Items, so it appears this is not spoofing. I changed my wife's Hotmail password. My fear is that the culprit is keylogging spyware. If that's true, it may happen again. Regarding the possibility that it is an attack on weak passwords: My wife and colleague both had 6-character alpha passwords. That's not a super-easy level, but also not very strong. I welcome suggestions about what to try or look for. [/QUOTE]
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