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Thread ID: 126052	2012-08-04 04:09:00	Hotmail Phishing attack - best ways to get re-started	Digby (677)	Press F1

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1292714	2012-08-04 04:09:00	Hi Guys A friend of mine rang to say she has been taken in by a Hotmail Phisihing attack. She clicked on a "message" sent to her by one of her friends. Then this message was sent to all of her contacts. It seems to have been round for a while. Hotmail has put her account on hold. Do you know the best way round getting it going again ? Should I run Malware Bytes ? Thanks	Digby (677)
1292715	2012-08-04 04:57:00	Hi Guys A friend of mine rang to say she has been taken in by a Hotmail Phisihing attack. She clicked on a "message" sent to her by one of her friends. Then this message was sent to all of her contacts. It seems to have been round for a while. Hotmail has put her account on hold. Do you know the best way round getting it going again ? Should I run Malware Bytes ? Thanks I received two of those emails yesterday, one 'from' my son in Oz and the other 'from' one of his friends' parents. I emailed to warn him of the attack and recommended an online scan as at that stage I didn't know for sure what was going on but I was quite certain that there was a payload of some sort attached. I read both in Mailwasher and deleted without downloading. This is what I saw in Mailwasher: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- xxxxxxx_10@hotmail.com sent you a private message. <br> <a alt="q4fe2vgu6dlhgmk1u2z 22ybmot53pnhherfi5iq ngmqbbn4ubklsv6krw8t" id="2x3n3n64tvg07luku26 3wlgfwztpls82q82aa4i" href="d5mn3peaguh9at.ms0.me/?read=0w&f=xxxxxx_10@hotmail.com&t=xxxxx@xtra.co.nz&n=xxxx,">Private message</a> <style>I feel, been included in a way that is simple and concise, shorn of mumbo- </style> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cheers Billy 8-{)	Billy T (70)
1292716	2012-08-05 01:31:00	Yes, we got them to send a code to another email address and then went in and enterted this. Hotmail asked a whole lot of stupid questions that we did not answer, (we answered the main ones) And then a few hours later my friends Hotmail account was re-opened. All good.	Digby (677)
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