[Bonetools] strange mails

[Elisabeth Ann Stone]

hi all,

I have also been the recipient and the "sender" of such emails -- my
apologies if you got one from me!

I did come across one way to help the problem. While logged on to the
tapped email, go to the extensions or add-ons in your browser settings.
>From there, look for the addition of any new programs and first disable and
then delete anything new that you don't recognize (i.e., that you did not
install on purpose). That seems to have helped. I found a "flipora" that
was "activated" and deleted that and I thiiiiiink that the problem is
fixed. I also went to the website where you can choose to be eliminated
from either receiving or sending emails and I have not received any more.

I hope this helps! It feels like we're always one step behind the hackers,
huh?!

best wishes,
Beth

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Alice Choyke <choyke at ceu.hu> wrote:

> Dear Melanie,
>      Well, I checked the inner mailing list and I have even gotten
> invitations from myself. The list is certainly one source but my father and
> oldest non-academic friend in the States has also been a multiple
> recipient. I have pestered the IT people about this but until the long four
> day holiday is over in Hungary nothing will change - even if it is possible
> to change. I did run a full one day scan on my home computer and the IT
> people at school ran a check on my e-mail account there and both came up
> clean. Perhaps I need to change my CEU address and decommission the old
> one? One thing for sure - it is a huge waste of time for me and very
> annoying for all of you having to delete this dangerous nonsense.
>
> Best,
> Alice
>
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 11:33 PM, Melanie Langbein <mlangbeinarch at yahoo.de
> > wrote:
>
>> Dear Alice,
>>
>> I might be sharing your problem. Let me guess: the mails everyone is
>> getting are coming from a mail-account with almost the same adress as
>> yours, that is not yours but writes to your contacts?
>> For some months now, that´s happening to me. Strangely enough, the mails
>> are focused on a group of people I had contact with in a certain period.
>> The one thing I realised: the only place my mail-adress can be found in
>> the internet is on a page for this mailing list. Could be the origin of our
>> problems?
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Mel
>>
>>
>> Melanie Langbein M.A.
>> Geibelstraße 10
>> 90459 Nürnberg
>>
>>
>> 0176/20074267
>> mlangbeinarch at yahoo.de
>>
>>
>>   Alice Choyke <choyke at ceu.hu> schrieb am 22:56 Mittwoch, 22.Oktober
>> 2014:
>>
>>
>> Dear all,
>>       I know that strange mails have been appearing on your e-mails
>> around the world. My e-mail has *not* been hacked nor have I suddenly
>> gone insane. Apparently there are industrial size robotic operations that
>> pick up e-mails and then start to work out the places those e-mails go and
>> send these sinister exploratory e-mails looking for data from the
>> recipients which I hope you have all been smart enough to delete instantly.
>> If this problem persists I will explore possible solutions with the IT
>> people here at the university next week after the long four day holiday
>> here.
>>
>> Many apologies,
>> Alice
>>
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Elisabeth A. Stone, PhD
Adjunct Faculty
Department of Anthropology
MSC01-1040, Anthropology 1
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131

201.344.2229

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