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Diet Spam

  • 08-03-2014 5:21pm
    #1
    kah22
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 313 ✭✭


    I recently received an email from a friend. It was pointing me to a BBC website to do with dieting anyway I clicked the link and arrived at the site; it certainly looked like a BBC website it had all the right headers there etc. Then I realized of course that I was been directed to a false website and by that stage I had clicked on one of the links.

    Today I received a similar email from my niece only this time pointing me to a women's health magazine website the product is called Gacinia Cambogia

    Anyway here is my worry the first email was opened on my ipad mini and the second one on my Galaxy 4 mobile. If I am affected I've no idea how to clean them.

    I am running a cleanup on my laptop

    Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

    Kevin


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  • #2
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    kah22 wrote: »
    I recently received an email from a friend. It was pointing me to a BBC website to do with dieting anyway I clicked the link and arrived at the site; it certainly looked like a BBC website it had all the right headers there etc. Then I realized of course that I was been directed to a false website and by that stage I had clicked on one of the links.

    Today I received a similar email from my niece only this time pointing me to a women's health magazine website the product is called Gacinia Cambogia

    Anyway here is my worry the first email was opened on my ipad mini and the second one on my Galaxy 4 mobile. If I am affected I've no idea how to clean them.

    I am running a cleanup on my laptop

    Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

    Kevin

    Can you PM me with the link in the email?


  • #3
    Stuxnet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,739 ✭✭✭Stuxnet


    you got phished,

    You should run a malwarebytes scan in windows safe mode (assuming your on windows), that will catch and remove anything untoward,

    and to be uber safe, double check you DNS settings in your router's settings webpage haven't been changed, highly unlikely, but its an attack vector that's increasing by the day.


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