It wasn't me!

[unfeathered]

Sincerest apologies to those of you who got spammed by a stoopid email apparently sent from me this afternoon - which presumably is any of you I've ever emailed. Ooops!

Andy has gone over my computer and can't find anything else odd, and has re-installed virus checkers etc. so hopefully this won't happen again. If it does, I guess I'll have to close down that account and get a new one, which would be a bit of a bother since I've got about 20 RP journals and various other things all attached to that address... *sigh*

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[unfeathered]

Huh. It is a gmail address that was affected. So... there's absolutely nothing I can do then?

[omphalos.livejournal.com]

Unless you have your gmail set up to download to your machine via a pop3 mail client such as Outlook, then it's unlikely your computer is the source of the problem.

Just to make absolutely sure, download, update and run the *free* versions of these two malware detectors: Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and Superantispyware. They are both very good and tend to spot things other detectors don't.

They may well pick up things that have nothing to do with this particular worm too!

[unfeathered]

Thanks, I'll get onto that at the weekend/when I've caught up on my sleep enough to get my head round stuff. Thanks for all your advice on this! :-)