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[kitzmark]

Hello,
My sister-in-law recently sent out some emails and apparently at least one instance has porn links attached to them. Any idea how this could happen? Is it most likely on the sender's end or on the receivers? How can we stop this for good??!!

thanks for any help ,
Rick

[N/A]

hehe....i think your sister-in-law wants you. just kidding!
does it happen to every emails she sends?what program does she use to send emails?

[mairving]

It could be a guess by sending them out by various names @herISP.com . It could be another web site that she registered with has sold the email address. It could from having her email address on a website somewhere. It could be from someone linking her machine name to an ISP (i.e. machine name, maybe her name), then matching that against the IP address that she connected from to get her ISP. There is also code that can harvest email addresses directly out of Outlook Express.

I have seen all of these used from time to time.

[kitzmark]

She uses Outlook Express. The only receiver that I know of that got the porn links was using hotmail. Is it more likely for the hotmail accont to have been corrupted?

thanks for hte ideas... still waiting for mroe information from her

[aym]

Did you check for viruses/spyware?
To check for spyware, use Ad-aware ( www.lavasoftusa.com ).

[kitzmark]

I looks like the attachments are from my computer???????
Maybe that's why one guy got porn and I got an an mp3 and a .mso and .htm file. It's like it's looking for images for a web page on my own computer. I'm going to try running some anit-spyware on her computer. Very strange.

Thanks for he ideas

[glc]

Maybe you need to scan your own computer for malware too.